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To: TokyoMex who wrote (2070)	3/25/1998 8:46:00 AM
From: Gerald L. Kerr	Respond to of 34592

Excerpt from WSJ Article: interactive.wsj.com >>One party that stands to benefit from the distribution shift is Rentrak Corp. a Portland, Ore., video distributor that has been operating a revenue-sharing program for the past 10 years. Blockbuster recently signed a multi-year pact with the company, whose proprietary information system records each and every rental at its clients" stores and acts as the go-between for them with the studios. In exchange, Rentrak gets 10% of rental revenues, with the stores and studios getting 45% each. Ron Berger, Rentrak's chairman and chief executive, says the studios' old video-pricing system puts an "artificial cap" on the rental business. "We could grow the business at 20% to 30% if we remove the constraints on the number of tapes in the marketplace," he says. <<