CinemaNow, one of the original online movie distributors, has been sold to Roxio parent company Sonic Solutions. The deal gives A/V tech outfit Sonic access to something like 6,000 pieces of premium entertainment content. The brand will live on as a unit of Sonic. The CinemaNow-Sonic Solutions deal was put at $3 million. CinemaNow has been … [Read more...]
Hulu chief: We’re still a start-up
Jason Kilar of Hulu.com got in five minutes of face time with CNBC viewers, saying his online TV service owes its success to one simple rule: "We obsess over every pixel." "We think that if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap that good things will happen," the Hulu CEO told CNBC's Julia Boorstin on Tuesday. "Users will adopt … [Read more...]
CBS goes mental, pulls full episodes
Fans of CBS' new shows "The Mentalist" and "Eleventh Hour" are letting the network have it after full episodes were suddenly removed from cbs.com "You're losing viewers like me," one "Mentalist" viewer warned the network on the program-specific message boards. Another griped: "Why tune in to CBS shows when the other networks offer full … [Read more...]
Netflix streaming to TiVo boxes
Netflix and TiVo are linking up to stream the video renter's Watch Instantly service to DVRs. Testing will begin immediately. TiVo customers with HD-ready set-top boxes will have the streaming movies service by the end of the year, the New York Times reported. An eligible subscription to Netflix is required. The Watch Instantly service will … [Read more...]
Macs get Netflix streaming movies
Netflix's streaming movie and TV service Watch Instantly has spent the past year irritating the red envelope crowd for not being compatible with Macs or Firefox. Meanwhile, the Mac community founded more reasons to hate Microsoft when its Silverlight media player became the "official" Olympics online media delivery system, leaving Apple users to … [Read more...]
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