{"id":615117,"date":"2009-12-28T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/28\/studios-make-bigger-push-for-digital-sales-voices\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T17:06:08","slug":"studios-make-bigger-push-for-digital-sales-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615117","title":{"rendered":"Studios Make Bigger Push for Digital Sales [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Sarah McBride, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>The Showtime cable-television network has begun selling episodes of its hit series &#8220;Weeds&#8221; online, weeks ahead of the DVD release.<\/p>\n<p>The tactic, by &#8220;Weeds&#8221; producer Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., is the part of a more aggressive effort Hollywood is taking to boost online sales of digital movies.<\/p>\n<p>Studios have become bolder in how they push their shows and movies over digital channels. Earlier this month, Sony Corp.&#8217;s (SNE) Sony Pictures started making online rentals of its hit movie &#8220;Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs&#8221; available for owners of some Sony TVs and other devices, well before the film&#8217;s Jan. 5 release on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>A Sony spokesman declined to say how many consumers were taking the offer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703521904574614671253849410.html\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20091228\/studios-make-bigger-push-for-digital-sales\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah McBride, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal The Showtime cable-television network has begun selling episodes of its hit series &#8220;Weeds&#8221; online, weeks ahead of the DVD release. The tactic, by &#8220;Weeds&#8221; producer Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., is the part of a more aggressive effort Hollywood is taking to boost online sales of digital movies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2A1f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}