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Netflix is coming to a high-definition LG Electronics television near you. The two companies on Monday announced an extension of an existing partnership whereby LG will sell Internet-ready TVs capable of streaming content from a catalog of 12,000 Netflix movies. The service is already available on one of LG’s Blu-ray disc players.
Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.
If Dreamworks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is right, you’ll soon be out shopping for the latest in designer glasses. 3-D glasses that is. Hollywood studios such as Dreamworks, Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox are betting 3-D will finally become the next big thing in film, luring moviegoers to the theater with advancements in a technology that first caught viewers’ attention in the 1950s.
All those singing cats and clumsy kittens you currently see on YouTube will soon be getting some more feline company at the online video Web site: Leo, the roaring, toothy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. The movie studio announced Monday that it would allow a very limited selection of full-length movies and TV shows from its library, along with one- to two-minute clips from MGM films.
From “Spider-Man 3″ to “No Country for Old Men,” Netflix is making another 2,500 movies, TV shows and concerts available for instant viewing through a deal with Starz Entertainment. The new content will beef up the more than 12,000 movies and TV shows Netflix already makes instantly watchable over the Internet through its streaming service.
In a world gone digital, now comes another tale of big companies joining forces to take on media pirates and a giant named Apple. From some of the same people who brought you the Digital Living Network Alliance and Plays for Sure, it’s … the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem!
Google said Wednesday that it will partner with filmmaker Lionsgate Entertainment to share revenue from ads that Google places on YouTube clips from the studio’s movies. The deal will put advertising on clips uploaded by users and by the studio itself from Lionsgate movies such as the “Saw” horror series and “Dirty Dancing.”
A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on. The stocks of The Walt Disney Co., News Corp., CBS, Time Warner and Viacom fell slightly more than the broader market by the close.
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