These results first explain themselves, according to Philippe Bastard of Crisnay, president of the SEVN, by the importance of the piracy. Every day, he/it says, the number of entries in rooms of movies is equivalent to the one of the downloading’s illegal of movies on Internet, a sport to which the French are champions of the world. "That kills the market of the video and impacted heavily the financing of the movies", he/it underlines, since the video contributes non negligible way there.
The maladjustment of the legislation on the chronology of the media’s – other French specificity that fixes the delays of exploitation of the movie in every support or middle of diffusion, video, television, after his/her/its exit in rooms – constitutes to the eyes of Jean-Yves Mirski, general delegate of the SEVN, the other reason of the stagnation. A movie cannot be marketed on DVD that six months after his/her/its exit on the French screens – the longest delay in Europe. Warner could not take the last Harry Potter for example before January 2008, missing the feasts of Christmas therefore. "An economic ineptitude that was worth us 20% of sales in less", affirm M. Bastard of Crisnay, also vice-president of Warner Home Video.
The law against the downloading illegal of the works on Internet having taken the delay, the possible relays of growth, as the video to the demand, remain confidential (3% of the market in the best of the cases end 2008). The Blu-Ray, the new format high definition, pain also to impose itself/themselves. As for the TV series, they suffer as much as the movies.
Does to "CAUSE THE CURIOSITY" Her fall can she/it stop herself/itself? The professionals count on the last three months of the year, traditionally favorable, and the exit, by Pate, of Welcome at the Chastises, foreseen end of October. But the interrelationship between the number of spectators in rooms and the sales of DVD cut down with time.
Actually, the best sign seems to be the decrease on behalf of the DVD sold on the whole of the sales. The sales to less of 3 euros represented 0,7% of the turnover only to the first semester 2008 and 5,4% of the volumes (against 8,2% on the same period of 2007).
The middle price of the novelties stabilizes to 19,31 euros. Renaud Delourme, CEO of the Edition Montparnasses and president of the union of the edition independent ideographic, doesn’t have any hard enough words against the "stuffing" of bad quality videos, sold to 1 euro on Internet. "These practices of devaluation of the works are catastrophic, he/it says. A movie, as one book or a disk, must be identified, rare, unique. There is a price to pay to allow the reader to identify. The regimental adjutants, with these practices, commit suicide."
These are besides them that toast. The small publishers, and their demanding lines, resist better. Celebrating their twenty years this fall, the Edition Montparnasses, very eclectic (between the repetition of the catalog of the RKO, the capitations of the Comedy-French, of the leading sets as Palette, of the documentaries or the very beautiful collection "The film gesture") sell close to a million of DVD per year.
Independent other, Carlotta, that aims since ten years the pure and hard film-lovers, has less pranced that his/her/its colleagues during the age of gold of the DVD, but endures less the crisis today. Co-founder, Vincent Paul-Joncour is persuaded that "the compile is always as present, it is necessary to cause the curiosity and the desire of the public" rightly. It is one of the first independent to publish some movies on Blu-Ray, with The Casanova of Felinity and Sympathy heart the Devil of Jean-Luc Godard. "It will be well a transition less radical than the one of the VHS in the DVD, there won’t be need to change his/her/its video library: the DVD read themselves on readers Blu-Ray", he/it specifies.
Playing on the complementarily of his/her/its professions, Carlotta is not content with publishing about fifty DVD per year, of which number of rarities. He/it distributes as every year about fifteen movies in rooms. He/it even exploits, recently, the Parisian room The Latina. A sunbeam in the gray sky.
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