| TV, Movies Available On Xbox Live | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:44:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft has teamed up with a handful of Hollywood studios to sell TV shows and movies that can be downloaded through its online video-game service -- Xbox Live -- and then beamed straight onto television sets. The company says that beginning Nov. 22, Xbox Live users with the latest console will be able to choose from TV shows including "South Park" and "CSI," and movies such as "V for Vendetta" and "Mission Impossible III." The agreements were signed with CBS, MTV Networks, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment, Viacom's Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System, and Ultimate Fighting Championship, which primarily broadcasts pay-per-view fights. Financial terms of the partnerships were not disclosed. One advantage Microsoft hopes will play in its favor is that consumers will be able to watch the content on their TV sets rather than on computers or portable digital devices -- the standards for most competing services.... | |
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| | | TV Guy: 'Awesome' sends up movies of the '80s | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:45:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fans of the ludicrous high-concept coming-of-age movies of the Reagan era are in for a big pink treat. "Totally Awesome" (9 p.m., VH1) slices, dices and purees every movie plot from "Revenge of the Nerds" to "Footloose." Pittsburgh teen Charlie (Mikey Day) finds himself on the bottom of the pecking order when his clueless parents uproot him to California. His sister, Lori (Dominique Swain), has it worse. On the verge of a big ballet career, she discovers that their new school and new town has banned dancing. Luckily, the school has an overripe janitor (Chris Kattan, in a role he was born to play) who teaches jazz dance and other dirty flashdance steps in an abandoned warehouse at the edge of town. Charlie takes on the "cool" kids with the help of a mentor in ghetto attitude (Tracy Morgan), an Asian martial arts instructor (James Hong) and the senior class' least popular girl, Billie (Nicki Clyne).... | |
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| | | Navicast adds Windows Media support | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:22:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Barsark today released Navicast 3.3, an update to the internet video and Web-TV system for Mac users. The revision adds Windows Media support, allowing users to automatically compress, publish, distribute, and present movies in QuickTime, MPEG-4, 3gp, and Windows Media formats. The software is usable for Web-TV services, mobile phone video services, in-shop TV solutions, and podcast/vodcast services. Navicast 3.3 adds pay-per-view and subscription functionality for both Web and mobile phones, as well as categorization functionality within channels. The new feature allows users to easily organize Movies within a channel into categories, according to Barsark. The update also offers an improved user interface, and fixes numerous bugs alongside some interface quirks (pricing available by quote only, system requirements were unavailable).... | |
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| | | A Fine Choice for TV Viewers From Next Month | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 7:20:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | KUALA LUMPUR: Fine TV, Malaysia's third pay-television, is set to go on air nationwide early next month, with two additional channels and a low registration fee, to cater to local viewers. Fine TV operator Network Guidance Sdn Bhd president Ida Rahayu Mohd Noor said subscribers would only have to pay less than RM100 for one-time registration for the 20-channel service under the new package. "We are ready to beam nationwide as wireless broadband is now available throughout the country. We will announce the new package after the Hari Raya Aidilfitri break." .... | |
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| | | Verizon Expands Choice for TV Service to Florida's Pasco County Residents | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:12:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Verizon today expanded the availability of its FiOS TV service to more than 4,000 households in a Pasco County area the company refers to as Seven Springs, offering amazingly sharp pictures and sound and a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming, via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the only company to offer such a communications network all the way to customers in millions of homes and offices across the country. Verizon began taking orders for its fiber-optic TV services in Seven Springs today, bringing the total number of households that have access to FiOS services in Pasco County to more than 38,000. Previously, the company announced that its FiOS TV services, as well as its high-speed Internet and voice services, were available in parts of Land o Lakes, Lutz and Keystone, and to virtually all of the households it serves in the Wesley Chapel area.... | |
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| | | Disney movies reap $1 mil in first week of downloads | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:16:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES - Downloading Disney movies is quickly proving to be profitable for the entertainment powerhouse with more than $1 million in downloads during its first week of selling movies through Apple's iTunes. Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger, who has made new technology initiatives a top priority, said Disney sold 125,000 digital copies of films in less than a week, quickly generating $1 million in revenue. "Clearly customers are saying to us they want content in multiple ways," Iger said at the investment conference in New York sponsored by Goldman Sachs. .... | |
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| | | FOX To Offer Movies & TV Shows for Download | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 9:35:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and Twentieth Century Fox today announced a multi-year agreement to provide feature films and television shows on a download-to-own basis across the FIM network. Consumers will have access to a vast catalogue of leading content, including hit feature films such as X-Men The Last Stand and The Omen, as well as episodes of television series like 24 and Prison Break. Initially, FIM will offer films from Twentieth Century Fox, including new releases, made-for-TV movies, direct-to-video releases and select content from the Twentieth Century Fox film library on IGN's Direct2Drive site. The site will also offer current television series from various Fox entities such as Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fuel TV, Speed and FX, with a selection of shows available within 24 hours of initial broadcast.... | |
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| | | TV Anywhere to Bring American TV to the World | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 7:13:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | Denver, CO (PRWEB) August 31, 2006 -- TV Anywhere today announced its forthcoming service offering focused on providing American television programming to subscribers residing outside of the US. The new service is a broadband enabled service that will allow subscribers to view live linear TV, on-demand movies and shows, and daily local news on either a PC client or a digital IP based set top box connected to the subscribers television. .... | |
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| | | Fox To Deliver Movies & TV Shows For Download | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:15:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and 20th Century Fox announced a multi-year agreement to provide feature films and television shows on a download-to-own basis across the FIM network. Fox Interactive Media's network will have access to Fox Ent. Group's catalogue of content including hit feature films such as X-MEN THE LAST STAND and THE OMEN as well as episodes of television series like 24 and PRISON BREAK. IGN Ent. will be the first FIM property to offer a selection of content on its Direct2Drive site (www.direct2drive.com) in October 2006 with additional FIM properties including MySpace.com to come. Our drive to deliver 20th Century Fox content via the most powerful online platforms is advanced substantially by this agreement, said Peter Levinsohn, president, digital media, Fox Ent. Group. Offering Fox content in conjunction with FIM properties enables viewers to access the best movies and TV shows from multiple platforms in the Fox family.... | |
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| | | Robots go head-to-head in trio of new games | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 11:10:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | In movies and TV shows, robots are a lot like us. Some of them, like Data on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," even look like us, and even fully metal creations like C-3PO in "Star Wars" are basically humanoid. In anime - and, by extension, anime-inspired video games - robots are a different breed. In cartoons like "Robotech" and games like "MechWarrior," the robots (or mechs) are giant warring machines, usually controlled by a human operator. They could snap the Terminator like a twig. The audience for mech games is somewhat cultish, with series like "Armored Core" and "Front Mission" attracting small but devoted audiences. By now, though, this style of futuristic combat is a video-game staple, occasionally producing a masterpiece like 1998's "Xenogears." If you loved Transformers or Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots as a kid, you might want to take one of these for a spin.... | |
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