DVDs don’t work, so the customer wants the downloads

One of our clients just emailed, the DVDs they sent the customer will not play in their DVD player, so the customer wants to return the DVDs and get the downloads instead.

Bottom line: Downloads are more reliable than DVDs!

Percussion Center launches their Hudson Digital On Demand catalog

Percussion Center Drums, a percussion instrument retailer based in Houston, Texas launched their Hudson Digital On Demand affiliate catalog today. A great page, and the banner they made is nice too!

Click here to see their download page!

Chords Online launches the first International affiliate catalog

The first international affiliate launched their Homespun Instant Access catalog today! Chords Online is a leading music instruction distributor in Germany, and now the first international MOD Machine affiliate.

You can view their download page here (yes, it’s in German).

Music Villa launches their Homespun Instant Access catalog!

Music Villa, a retailer of musical instruments, launched their Homespun Instant Access catalog today. A great page, and the banner they made is nice too!

Hudson Digital On Demand Launches

The world’s leading drum instruction company, Hudson Music, Launched their MOD Machine catalog today!

You can download it from the Hudson Music website here.

Best Buy Movie Downloads: Is the Death of the DVD Nigh?

The announcement that Best Buy is teaming with CinemaNow on movie downloads is yet another sign that DVDs are plummeting fast into a steep downward trajectory.

Best Buy, the leading retail seller of DVD movies, is now seeing those sales fade away as more people move to renting movies through digital distribution.

Let’s face facts here. DVDs can warp or get scratched, immediately making them unplayable. It’s easy to lose a DVD… and it might be hard to get one back after you’ve loaned it to a friend.

Best Buy isn’t the only hawker of multimedia entertainment to be shying away from physical DVDs. It was only last month that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings – head of a company that rents movies on disk as well as through video streaming – predicted in a podcast that disks may lose their number-one spot within the company’s video distribution scheme after another two years.

Read the whole article here.

VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, what’s next?

VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, what’s next?

1977: VHS

The advent of VHS tape, for the first time in history, gave publishers a format in which they could publish titles to sell to consumers and businesses. In 1982, Jane Fonda released an exercise video titled Jane Fonda’s Workout, which eventually sold a record breaking 17 million copies. The video’s release led many people to buy a VHS VCR, in order to watch and perform the workout in the privacy and convenience of their own homes. The success of this title paved the way for thousands of other instructional videos spanning topics from health to real estate to stock market investing to home improvement to musical instrument instruction. Along with the consumer video market, business training titles proliferated, growing to over $6 billion in yearly sales.

1997: DVD

DVDs offered better video and audio quality, random access, lighter shipping weight, smaller storage requirements, some limited interactivity, and better shelf life. Since DVDs can also be played in computer drives, a lot of viewers, such as corporate employees, students in small dorm rooms, travelers and others watch DVDs on their laptop or desktop computer.

2003: Blu-Ray disc

Blu-Ray discs brought HD video to a disc format in 2003, but the high cost of AACS licensing fees and replication stopped most publishers outside the Hollywood movie industry from migrating to it.

2008: MOD Machine

In 2008, MOD Machine took the video format virtual, offering all the advantages of previous formats with quantum leaps forward, including instant delivery, protection of content, easy syndication, much better interactive options, and with none of the huge problems and costs of physical inventory.
Unlike all previous video formats, MOD Machine will never be obsolete. As codecs evolve, as resolution increases, if frame rates change, no matter what happens, MOD Machine will deliver it. MOD Machine will never fade away like a limited physical format.

Homespun Instant Access launches!

Homespun tapes, a world-famous publisher of music instruction videos, launched today!

The very first customer says:

“I am… pleased to be able to say that the experience was excellent. The download process worked flawlessly and the product (Gordon Lightfoot songs) was quite good. Once I understood the interface I really enjoy using it. I’ll be back for more programs in the near future.”

Yay! Happy customers are what we live for!

referral code field added

When checking out, the customer now sees a “referral code” field. This allows publishers to enable discounts, either a percentage, or dollar amount, to be applied to the total purchase.

Windows XP/Vista Mod Machine released to public

A fourth product was added today by DVcreators.net to their MOD Machine catalog, and a Windows version of the catalog was released.

Zero problems with either so far.

Their third product has enjoyed a 50% sales increase. The theory is that this third product is being purchased by current owners of the other products due to the satisfaction with the customer experience, convenience of buying with just a few clicks, and being able to enjoy the product immediately.