In today’s tech-savvy world where 90 per cent of the population has access to the internet, we can expect that in the future, we will not have to go to movie theatres to catch up with the latest movies because, they will be delivered to us at our doorstep, or to be more specific, to our living room or bedrooms. This will all, of course, be thanks to the internet. Keeping the future of the cinema industry in mind, many movie studios have already tied up with the software providers like apple (iTunes) so that they can circulate the movies to us via the net.

Researchers say that by the year 2011 the profit from the sale of movies online through the internet will be 1.8 Billion dollars. Broadband allows your internet to run really fast and hence, allows you to download movies you want to watch quickly. Rise of broadband and realization of the movie producers about this rise is the main reason to why the medium of entertainment is shifting to the internet.

Priced at $10-$15, biggies like Walt Disney are selling original digital copies of there productions, and earning a humungous profit by doing so. The users can download the original movie at the first-rate prices with this service. Portals which allow the movies to be downloaded for free are also present at some of the sites. Hence, the growing popularity of this medium ascertains the fact that in the near future, movies will be designed specially for circulation through the internet.

Initially, Hollywood’s movie production houses used to treat the internet as an enemy because they feared piracy which was uncontrollable at that point of time. Today situation is much better and even the Hollywood productions use the internet in order to make money online from advertisement in popular movies sites, sell DVDs and other movies accessories, etc…