Has Japan saved Hollywood?
In Slate, Edward Jay Epstein uses the delay of the Playstation 3 to peg a discussion of Japan’s effect on Hollywood. To summarize, Japanese technological innovation = increased revenue for Hollywood by opening up home entertainment markets. (Which, of course, probably also contributes to the decline in movie-going, but overall, that revenue loss is dwarfed by gains from DVDs and video games and so forth.)
Will the PS3 have a massive immediate effect on show business? Probably not if, as widely rumored, it costs $500 to begin with.
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