YouTube's quest for real Hollywood content continues. Ongoing talks with Sony Pictures could result in full-length streaming movies for the site -- a big improvement over the watery content deal reached the other day for short-form content from Disney/ABC/ESPN. Of course, Sony won't be giving up its latest boxoffice hits. The studio's film … [Read more...]
Blockbuster joining TiVo’s VOD lineup
Blockbuster's online movie gallery soon will be playing on TiVo boxes, under a deal the two companies will announce today, the New York Times is reporting. The struggling home video rental giant plans to sell TiVo boxes via its 4,000 retail stores in the U.S. The service via TiVo begins in the second half of the year, the Times reported. "We … [Read more...]
iTunes Store gets serious about HD
The iTunes Store is open to all for high-definition business, starting with the highly anticipated videos "Quantum of Solace" and "Twilight." iTunes actually started selling high-def titles more than a year ago, but the proposition was too squirrelly for most of us to worry about -- HD movies and TV shows were only available for rental, and then … [Read more...]
March Madness streams cleaned up
Like green beer, stinky cabbage and your office NCAA pool picks, CBS's live streaming presentations of March Madness proved to be a bittersweet March tradition. Herky jerky video, pointless viewer registrations and the purgatory of a bandwidth "waiting room" all irritated followers of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Still, 4.7 million … [Read more...]
TV.com looking good with 1080p HD
CBS' TV.com says it's streaming high-definition video in 1080p resolution. The evidence, which looks quite good, can be found on the page Beta: True High Definition Video. So far, the TV.com page only has a couple of clips -- from "CSI," "Survivor," "The Pink Panther" and Letterman. But the text promises, "This is Blu-Ray DVD quality, right here … [Read more...]
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