"28 Weeks Later" quarantined off the No. 1 spot in CinemaNow's download sales at this week, while the studio's hit "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" glided into second place. In rentals, the men of "Wild Hogs" and "300" occupied Nos. 1 and 2 on the video download service's top 10 chart. Download sales: 1. 28 Weeks Later 2. … [Read more...]
Blu-ray bitch-slapped by Paramount
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation's stated reasons for going all HD DVD -- as in no Blu-ray -- don't make much sense. Most of the mainstream press ate up their press release and left it at that. A couple of trade journalists nailed down the likely cause: that the HD DVD manufacturers paid the studios something like $150 million to make this … [Read more...]
Washington Post down on downloads
The Washington Post isn't buying movie downloading in its current form. Here, Rob Pegoraro takes a shot at MovieLink and CinemaNow: If you must obtain a movie in the next few hours but can't leave your house or have anybody else pick up the flick, these two Windows-only stores might work. Otherwise, it's unclear who would bother with them: … [Read more...]
‘Sicko’ downloads making their rounds
Right now, I'm watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" on Google Video. Good documentary with the usual hard-left slant on the reporting. Video quality is just OK, of course. A high-quality DVD screener (DVDSCR) copy is widely available on BitTorrent outlets. The Google download is a no-hassle, zero risk way to see the film. As of this writing, it's … [Read more...]
The television empire strikes back
"The noise and the hand-wringing that have come because of the launch of companies such as Joost, and from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Apple claiming that your PC is the next television, are wrong." So says Michael Kokernak in MediaPost's Video Insider column. Kokernak points out, correctly, that the television industry is fighting … [Read more...]
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