Hollywood's Digital Dawdling

On Feb. 3, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SNE) is going to make an honest man of me. Finally I will be able to buy a legal DVD of one of my favorite movies, Carol Reed’s 1959 “Our Man in Havana.” But there’s still no rhyme or reason to what films are available in any digital form. If, for example, you happen to have a videotape player around, you can watch an old VHS version of “The African Queen.” But you can’t buy it on DVD or download it from any of the Hollywood-sanctioned online services.

The basic problem is that Hollywood is attempting to preserve an analog business model in a digital age.

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