Yes, we moviegoers are jumping in joy and have sold off everything we owned to buy an HD-DVD player. No, but seriously, after months of jockeying between two rival camps…

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Netflix added two veteran film and home video execs, in an effort to boost exclusive content and DVD acquisitions. It has hired Bahman Naraghi, formerly COO of film company Intermedia…

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Two of the biggest online DVD (and increasingly download) rentals firms in UK, Lovefilm and Video Island, are to merge to create what they claim will be a subscriber base…

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Netflix has accused rival Blockbuster of illegally copying its ideas in a patent infringement lawsuit challenging the video store chain’s recent Internet expansion. The suit mainly focuses on the online…

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This is a step forward in the collapsing windows of the movie business, but is still crazily convoluted…Movie studios have agreed to give movies to their co-owned online movie service…

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“Shrinking the windows is bad for business,” Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements and vice chairman of Viacom and CBS, told investors and analysts Thursday, arguing that four or five…

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Not a rave review from WSJ’s Walt Mossberg but enough potential pull quotes to help newly independent MovieBeam along. Mossberg doesn’t like the lack of choice when it comes to…

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Kinda crazy to consider such pricing, but News Corp. is betting that people will pay $25-$30 to watch Fox films at home in HD quality via cable and satellite TV…

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Disney CEO Bob Iger has been outspoken about his belief that some distribution windows are outdated. Now Disney will release some of its movies on demand the same day they…

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NYT: “Will people pay $230 and hook a new gizmo up to their television sets so they do not have to drive to the video rental store? ... Tres Izzard,…

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That’s TV-DVD-VOD, in case you didn’t get that...the momentum of those collapsing windows is increasing by the day, it seems, and “day and date” is becoming the norm. Sundance has…

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This is indicative of Starbucks’ growing power as an alternative media distribution vehicle, and a very effective one at that. I doubt their Hear Music CD-burning cafes are doing well,…

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UK online DVD rental service Lovefilm, which has just launched a movie download service, has bought out Irish DVD rentals firm Screenclick.com, for about $3.6 million. SC will be rebranded…

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You’ll hear a lot more of this in 2006: Cable companies and major studios are discussing strategies to release movies through VOD cable services the same day they come out…

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Disney CEO Bob Iger says he’s even suggested that exhibitors sell the DVD at the theaters for moviegoers to pick up on the way out while the interest is still…

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If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em ... BusinessWeek posits that Netflix’s success over Wal-Mart and Blockbuster makes the online DVD company a target for rivals—MSOs, telecoms, portals—who may rather…

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(down the page) That’s according to an SEC filing, picked up by PE Week Wire...Peerflix, a small company making some waves with its DVD-swapping service (allows members to legally trade…

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The war continues and so does the confusion...two big moves came to light today: --Warner Bros: Warner Bros. said Thursday that its home video division will release DVDs in Blu-ray…

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The activity in the DVD standards market is at fever pace, with the two rival factions: HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. Today, Forrester came out with a controversial report which says that…

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Online DVD rental company Netflix’s Q3 earnings fell due to marketing costs from its war with rival Blockbuster and other charges, but subscriptions rose faster than forecast. Net income fell…

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If by that they mean that he’ll sell the movies on his HD and other networks as DVDs, well, that is obviously yes. But anyway, would be interesting to see…

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This is a good primer on the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD camp...following Microsoft and Intel jump over to the HD-DVD camp, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the top two business partners of Intel…

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You’ll probably see a lot more of these devices, and expect it to come from the smaller and more nimble device players...but for now, Samsung will bring out a DVD…

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And high time they did...hopefully they’ll have some trickle down effect for online movie service. Robert Iger, CEO-elect of Disney, recently suggested the day could come when a DVD is…

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Lots of fun on the movie DVD formats..the camps, as I wrote before, are now set. Not the Blu-Ray (headed by Sony) vs HD-DVD (headed by Toshiba) groups have given…

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