MoviePoint will initially offer about 2, 500 movies -- only about a quarter of those offered by CinemaNow -- and a small fraction of what one can access via Netflix rentals of physicaldisks.
Initially, rather than offer consumers what they wanted the ability to choose exactly which songs to buy, and to download them to either computers or portable music players the industry clung to the old format of song compilations (with just one or two hits) on physicaldisks.
Hollywood is still clinging on to the concept of selling physical goods like BluRay and DVD disks and giving those formats an advantage over legal streams.