Xbox 360 ownership looks even better this week with a couple of big-deal announcements out of the E3 games convention in L.A. Netflix and Microsoft confirmed that the rental giant's online video streaming service will be coming to Xbox Live, offering up something like 10,000 movies and TV shows. Netflix recently rolled out the instant movies … [Read more...]
FCC chief to Comcast: Hands off BitTorrent
Comcast cable's boneheaded campaign to choke off bandwidth for file-sharers has made a powerful enemy: FCC chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC chief said Friday that Comcast must stop singling out users of the BitTorrent file-sharing application, and reveal to customers what sort of "traffic shaping" activities it was employing. At this year's … [Read more...]
Digital dump on Hollwood: nothing new
The digital Godzilla that splatted the music industry is headed full speed for the movie and TV business. So says a top Lehman Brothers analyst, whose downgrade of the entertainment sector from "neutral" to "negtive" roiled major Hollywood stocks early this week -- even though all of this gloom has long been factored in to media stock … [Read more...]
MacFarlane, Google set ad unit toons
"The Family Guy" plan for world domination apparently includes invading friendly web sites. “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" will be carried on the "Ads By Google" advertising network, fed directly to web sites where "Family Guy" guys and gals are likely to hang out. The New York Times broke the story early this morning in a … [Read more...]
‘Kiss of Spider Woman’ planted in Unbox
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" has been underground since 1985, the year in which it seduced the Oscars. The indie film locked up unlikely nominations for best picture, best director and best actor (for William Hurt, who won). True to form, the movie has made a dramatic but hardly sudden reappearance, debuting as an exclusive Amazon Unbox … [Read more...]
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