iTunes made a much-needed upgrade to its movie download business with today's news that major Hollywood films will be available on Apple's retail site day-and-date with their DVD releases. The movie downloads on the iTunes Store are flowing from Disney, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, … [Read more...]
‘Gossip Girl’: Lame ban on online video
The CW's astoundingly regressive move to pull "Gossip Girl" off the Internet probably wasn't much help in its "season premiere." Nielsen ratings show that the drama about Manhattan preppies pulled in 2.4 million viewers (1.3 rating/4 share) in its post-strike return to original episodes in a new time slot. That means "Gossip Girl" was up … [Read more...]
‘Juno’ DVD gives birth to digital copies
Plop in the disc, hit a prompt or two and you've got a copy of "Juno" ready for iPod or iTunes viewing. That was almost as easy as getting pregnant when you're young, in lust and not even close to married. The Hollywood studios are slow but not dumb. They finally figured out that tech-savvy users are going to get copies of hit movies onto their … [Read more...]
Online video review: Adobe Media Player
The Adobe Media player, which just went public, looks like it'll be a top-tier destination for mainstream online video -- that is, sometime soon. For now, there's not much in the way of meaningful content you can't get elsewhere -- more reliably. And, the service appears to inspire a maddening amount of buffer activity. As with Joost, you'll … [Read more...]
Report: Joost retreating to States
Joost, the online television service, has taken major blows from competitors in Britain and the States, and is "preparing for a major retrenchment," London's Times reports. Hulu and the BBC's iPlayer have been gobbling up programming rights and viewer numbers, at Joost's expense. Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis created Joost, … [Read more...]
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