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Showtime to pull several original series off Netflix

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Showtime is supposedly moving to pull some of its own original content from contracts involving Netflix. A report from Hollywood Reporter suggested that the company, owned by CBS, decided to skip the previous seasons of Californication and Dexter when the existing Netflix deal expires in the end of the year. The pulled episodes will continue [...]

Facebook and Warner are trying movie rentals with The Dark Knight

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Facebook has recently tested its own direct media service through a team-up with Warner. Users from the USA who visit the Dark Knight fan page are able to rent the movie by simply using 30 Facebook Credits (which means almost $3) and watch it directly from the social network. Viewers benefit from the same rights [...]

Netflix executive hired by Google for TV and movie projects

Published on: 22nd September, 2010

Google is believed to deepen its plans to enter the TV show and on-demand movie industry through the Google TV service. The company has hired Robert Kyncl, an executive from Netflix, according to news from AllThingsDigital. Kyncl has recently left Netflix and is now vice president of Content Partnership at Google, as sources said. However, [...]

Vimeo’s movie service extended onto iPhone and Android platforms

Published on: 18th November, 2009

Vimeo announced its intention of extending the movie service onto platforms like Google Android or iPhone and iPod Touch. The whole site content has been converted to formats appropriate to mobile devices. According to Vimeo’s director Blake Whitman, this is only the beginning of offering iPhone support to Plus members, as well as an application [...]

Unusual Deal – Movies on Flash Memory

Published on: 4th November, 2009

Movies available on SD cards or USB flash drives may sound strange enough but this is the subject of a most recent deal concluded between Kingston and Paramount. The latter’s movies could be sold on such media in the near future. The two partners didn’t provide any details on the formats but it’s certain that [...]

Verizon – the First Provider of EpixHD Streaming Video

Published on: 3rd November, 2009

EpixHD is offering recent movies in high definition video with no ads included – which is a remarkable thing – and is a viable and challenging alternative to Internet-based TV sources. Other competing services, such as On Demand Online from Comcast have been limited to only trial markets. EpixHD is surely a competitor of online [...]

Michael Jackson’s “This is it” coming in October 30

Published on: 14th September, 2009

Everyone on this Earth knows Michael Jackson and almost everyone knows what “This is it” was supposed to be and what it became … For the few people who have no clue, I will be more specific: “This is it” was supposed to be the King of Pop’s last shows on stage, as an entertainer, [...]