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CinemaNow and Macrovision bringing more video downloads to TV screens

In a move not unlike efforts by Amazon and Netflix, CinemaNow and digital content technology company Macrovision are working together to enable customers to download video from the web to their TVs.

Posted 01/08/2008Don DavisPost a comment

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Verizon Online and Shop.com create a co-branded marketplace

The online marketplace offers Verizon Online customers special deals and rebates on millions of products offered through Shop.com. Verizon Online customers manage shopping activity via their Verizon accounts.

Posted 11/06/2007Don DavisPost a comment

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Amazon and TiVo conclude their beta test and roll out video service

The beta test between Amazon.com’s Unbox service and TiVo is over and the two companies are rolling out a video download service, accessible by 1.5 million broadband-ready TiVo subscribers. About 600,000 TiVo subscribers have web-enabled their devices.

Posted 03/07/2007Bill BriggsPost a comment

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Amazon.com and TiVo dramatically alter video-on-demand landscape

Amazon and TiVo will introduce a service later this year that will allow TiVo subscribers with web-enabled TiVo digital video recorders to rent and purchase movies and TV shows at Amazon.com and view them on TVs as well as computers and portable devices.

Posted 02/07/2007Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Netflix to deliver rental films electronically to PCs--but not yet to TVs

Netflix’s new “instant watching” feature uses real-time playback technology that allows subscribers to view a rental film on a PC screen almost as soon as it’s delivered. It will debut the service with 1,000 films.

Posted 01/16/2007Kurt PetersPost a comment

Guba.com cuts prices for downloads of films and TV shows

Video download retailer Guba has significantly lowered prices for its library of movies and TV programs. It has been pioneering the video purchase and rental paradigm that lets users to buy and rent films and television programs via web downloading.

Posted 08/22/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment

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M2B World launches TV boxes that let viewers click to a shopping site

M2B World Inc. has introduced to the U.S. market its Pony TV set-top boxes, which let viewers click their TV screen to reach an online shopping site to buy something featured in an on-demand video program, M2B said yesterday.

Posted 07/25/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment

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Netflix files patent infringement suit against Blockbuster

Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc. has filed a patent infringement suit against rival Blockbuster Inc. and is asking a federal court to shut down Blockbuster’s online rental service. The lawsuit also seeks unspecified damages.

Posted 04/05/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment