Filmed entertainment includes box-office, home video and television programming.
Controversial digital technologies, such as MP3 and Napster, which allow consumers to bypass retail outlets and download music over the Internet for free, are shaking up the music industry. Though it remains dwarfed by filmed entertainment and recorded music, interactive entertainment's 1999 growth was the highest of the three segments. The continuation of multiplexing, which offers a wider selection of movies to viewers, should keep spending on the rise. Filmed entertainment, which includes box-office, home video, and television programming spending, grew by 8.5 percent in 1998, spurred by healthy increases in all three areas. Box-office spending was up 9.2 percent, while home video and television expenditures rose by 8.5 percent and 8.3 percent, respectively.