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The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Want Movie Downloads? Pay Up! Digital movie downloads? Good. Paying $30 a pop? Not so good. Given the fees and the limitations involved, it seems that this development mostly pays lip service to the nascent digital downloading industry. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
The Motley Fool May 9, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Warner Bros. Bets on BitTorrent A new deal gives file-sharing greater legitimacy. Think of it as Warner Bros.' attempt to abandon all-out war in favor of winning its former enemy over from the inside. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews July 19, 2006 Clint Boulton |
CinemaNow: Download, Burn, Watch Online movie service provider CinemaNow became the first company to allow movies piped over the Internet to be securely burned onto a DVD. |
InternetNews April 4, 2006 David Miller |
Movie Studios Offer Downloadable Films Now playing on a PC near you: downloadable movies available for purchase on the same day they're released on DVD. But the price - up to double the cost of DVDs - may be too steep for consumers. |
InternetNews July 17, 2006 Clint Boulton |
How to Rip a Movie, Legally Internet movie service provider Movielink has licensed software from Sonic Solutions to offer consumers a legal way to pay for movies they download from the Internet and burn them onto blank DVDs. |
InternetNews August 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
AOL Hoorays Hollywood Again Can Time Warner's AOL video service entice consumers to download movies where other attempts have failed? The answer is a definite "maybe." |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
BitTorrent's Big Break Peer-to-peer file-sharing program BitTorrent's new deals are a step forward in digital movie distribution. |
BusinessWeek April 9, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Now Playing: Digital Disarray Hollywood's piracy fears are stifling online video expansion. |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Chasing the Crowd Warner Bros. and NBC are well aware of the fact that they need to be part of the Internet crowd. Investors should be relieved at signs that their companies are finally responding -- and can expect a lot of additional change on the way. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
BitTorrent Goes Legit BitTorrent is a private entity, but it could become an interesting player in the budding digital video market, and may even help bring that market into the mainstream. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Glenn Derene |
Movie Download Site Comparison: Test Drive The future of buying and renting movies is streaming now to a PC near you. But not all online flicks are equal. Here's what you get with your near-instant gratification. |
InternetNews March 10, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Amazon Latest in Video Download Arena? The giant is reportedly thinking about it, but the services, while gaining popularity, are still 'not a slam dunk.' |
InternetNews June 14, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Reaching for Real Starz RealNetworks and Starz embrace a monthly subscription model for your cinematic enjoyment. |
InternetNews August 14, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Movies, TV For Download Through Fox Fox Interactive Media and Twentieth Century Fox today inked a multi-year deal to offer consumers movies and television shows to download from sites on MySpace.com and other sites on the FIM network. |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Sony Eyes Video Soon, video downloads will be available for the PSP. Legally obtained video content is still anybody's game. We'll see if Sony can make video magic with its PSP. |
The Motley Fool July 19, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Made You Blink Wake up, growth stocks. The online streaming service Movielink may finally matter. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2011 Patrick Martin |
Hollywood Still Doesn't Get It UltraViolet falls just short of bringing movie studios into the cloud era. |
InternetNews January 4, 2008 |
Game Over? Warner Bros To Back Blu-ray Exclusively The latest development in the DVD format war is a big win for Blu-ray over rival HD DVD technology. |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Hybrids Are Where It's At In the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, increasing moves towards hybrid technologies should help consumers become adopters. |
InternetNews January 14, 2008 |
Toshiba Cuts HD Player Prices in Blu-ray Fight Toshiba is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray format high definition DVDs. |
Fast Company November 2006 |
Fast Talk: Now Playing How Thomas McInerney's Guba beat out the bigs in the race to offer legal movie downloads. |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Jobs Goes to Wal-Mart? There's speculation that Wal-Mart and Apple may partner on movie downloads. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Peter Burrows |
Hollywood Holds Its Breath The iPod - and Disney's blessing - could create a mass audience for video on the go. |
InternetNews December 28, 2007 |
Wal-Mart Nixes Movie Downloads Wal-Mart shut down its online video download service after Hewlett-Packard discontinued the technology that powered it. |
PC World October 26, 2006 Dan Tynan |
Movie Downloads Are Still a Flop Skipping the video store sounds good, but don't count on it anytime soon. |
InternetNews August 9, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Blockbuster Buys Movie Download Service Blockbuster Inc. announced it acquired Movielink, calling it one of the nation's leading movie download services. |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Steven Mallas |
DVD: Devalued Disc? Even though many of the free movies British newspapers are giving away might be antiquated, there's no question that such a marketing move does corrupt the image of the disc as a premium commodity. Why do studios allow this to go on? |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2011 Anders Bylund |
Has Hollywood Seen the Digital Light? A consortium of big-name movie studios has come up with a bold, new digital distribution plan for new movies. |
The Motley Fool January 15, 2008 Anders Bylund |
Quick Take: HD-DVD, the Headless Chicken Blu-ray now commands about 70% of the high-definition DVD market, and it's only a matter of time before Viacom's Paramount and General Electric's NBC Universal leave the HD-DVD camp, too. |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
The Motley Fool September 12, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Is Apple's News Underwhelming? Today was showtime for Apple investors, but was the show interesting enough? |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 Grover & Lowry |
Squeezing Every Dime from DVDs With consumers flocking to low-cost Netflix and Redbox, Hollywood wants a bigger share of the profits. |
The Motley Fool August 14, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
News Corp.'s Foxy Plans The media conglomerate starts to show the big picture online. This story shows that News Corp.'s back in the game -- and it's obviously got a lot of tricks up its sleeve as it plays to win. |
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Wal-Mart Joins Video Download Party All the major studios are on board. Is Apple's iTunes store in trouble? |
Home Theater April 21, 2009 |
YouTube Gets More Movies and TV Hundreds of movies and thousands of TV shows will appear legally on YouTube thanks to a deal involving the video site, Sony Pictures, and 11 other media companies. |
The Motley Fool September 19, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
Movie Studios vs. Jolly Rogers Major movie studios are banding together against piracy. While the goals are perfectly understandable, investors should hope that the studios keep a careful eye on controlling piracy while encouraging new means of digital distribution for their content. |
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Muchmore & Kaplan |
Broadband Cinema Movie download sites eliminate the trips to the video store and the wait for Netflix mail. Is there a catch? |
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Ronald Grover |
Gates Tries For A Hollywood Ending Tinseltown execs may still love a tale of redemption. But it may take more than a new script for Microsoft to remake itself from villain to hero when it comes to digital rights management software and the media industry. |
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 |
Jim Ramo, Movielink Music labels saw sales plummet by 7% last year as pirates downloaded songs for free. To avoid a repeat in their industry, the major movie studios called upon Jim Ramo, a 56-year-old former cable exec, to run their film download site. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet. |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
A BitTorrential Disruption? Change is afoot in the media industry, and many companies will have to stay nimble, take some chances, and maybe even break with conventional wisdom if they want to stay ahead of the game. |
InternetNews February 19, 2008 |
Toshiba to Quit HD DVDs, Ends Format War Toshiba surrendered in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format. |
BusinessWeek September 11, 2006 Ronald Grover |
The Empire Strikes Back Wal-Mart sees a threat from iTunes downloads. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Glenn Derene |
Movies: From PC to TV Downloading a film is easy. Getting it to your living room screen is trickier. The three fastest ways to transfer Hollywood's finest to your HDTV. |
Home Toys December 2002 Michael Greeson |
Coming to a PC Near You Movielink ushers in a new genre of content provisioning capable of radically altering the business of movie rental. While you may disagree with this claim, this is indeed big news to those likely affected by this move. |
PC World November 2004 Dan Tynan |
Coming to a PC Near You Movie download sites: a great idea that's not quite there yet... Want to stop lugging a full-size PC to LAN parties? Then try Falcon Northwest's new FragBook line of notebooks... |
InternetNews January 8, 2008 |
Viacom Makes Videos Available Online Seeking to find Web-savvy watchers, MTV Networks' brands strikes distribution deals with Comcast and Internet video services. |
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Battle For DVD Format Unfolds Film studio Paramount Home Entertainment said it would embrace the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony. |