If one has had any doubts as to whether the movie industry has fared well over the last year or so, thanks to the economic recession, file sharing, BitTorrent and so on and so forth, the recent results that have come from the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) suggest a different tale altogether by indicating an 8 % improvement over 2009. Yet one wonders how this is possible due to the fact that all these factors can be a dampener in the revenues that the box office generates.

However, one can take into consideration two factors that have led to a stellar performance by the movie industry this year, and that is because of the recent success of 3D movies and the growth of the Asian market.

And while the naysayers were all but predicting the end of profitability as we know it in the movie industry, thanks to the headway that Kazaa and FastTrack were making in those days, nothing can be further from the truth as movie industry officials now think of this phenomenon as having an adverse impact on moviegoers who would enjoy getting their movies for free instead of going out to watch a movie.

But with the latest advancements, one can only surmise that despite the onslaught of the digital age into almost every area of our lives, the movie industry will continue to thrive, thanks to its latest innovations and the recent MPAA results say just that.

Television killed radio in the 80s. That’s for a fact, and people who lived during those times know how music television literally changed the way people listened to music as a whole. And while one good turn deserves another, the exponential growth of the internet also resulted in television taking the hit in terms of viewership just as the radio had done so many years ago.

However, one should know that the internet has spawned a new avatar of radio in the form of streaming radio that pretty much anyone in the world can listen provided they have a decent internet connection.

It doesn’t matter whether your tastes lie in jazz, rock and pop or even talk radio as there are several radio stations over the internet that caters to listeners that enjoy specific genres as a whole. What this means is that regardless of where you are, one can listen to specific radio stations in locations that they’ve never had access to until the internet (and Web 2.0) has reinvented radio in this format.

Of course, there are some of us who don’t specifically like any genres in particular, and there are options available for them too in the form of the top 40 songs that are released every week, and this only goes to show that the reach of the internet is limitless, and more importantly, that radio will always be a part of our lives.