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Comcast, MGM to launch action movie VOD channel »

Comcast Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. said Tuesday they are teaming up to introduce a video-on-demand channel featuring action movies and TV shows.
Comcast, the country’s largest cable operator, already has a hit with another genre-specific VOD channel and Web site, FEARnet, which features horror movies and thrillers, in collaboration with Lionsgate and Sony Pictures Television. FEARnet […]

TiVo to stream YouTube videos »

Just what the television industry needs, increased competition from those wacky YouTube videos that 68 million people watch every month.

Only now, it will be easier than ever to view them on television screens.
Beginning Thursday, TiVo will offer thousands of its subscribers the ability to stream YouTube videos onto their television sets through their broadband-enabled TiVo […]

Amazon To Debut Streaming Movie/TV Service Today »

Amazon will launch a new streaming video service to select customers on Thursday called Amazon Video on Demand. The service is different from its year-and-a-half old Unbox download service, which offers downloads of movies and TV to rent and buy, but only works on Windows machines.

Amazon has clearly been rethinking the Unbox business lately, […]

Lions Gate to share ad revenue on clips on YouTube »

Google Inc. said Wednesday that it will partner with filmmaker Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. 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 Lions Gate movies such as the “Saw” horror series and “Dirty […]

Let’s go out to the movies »

If you’re anything like me and my friends—and I hope for your sake, that you are not—it can take hours to decide precisely which movie you want to go to. And that’s when you have a resource as handy as an iPhone, and all its attendant applications for checking out movie showtimes.

 

 
For one, there’s Jeff […]

With the strike over, it’s time for Strike TV »

A man opens a “spiritual business” where people call to get issues off their chests.
A successful life coach who preaches selfishness and greed ruins the lives of those around him.
And a divorced woman gives questionable advice on her “chocolate powered relationship recovery” talk show.
These scripted shows are among the 40 short Web films, written and […]

Hollywood studio, Google forge new ground on Web »

A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
 
Sony Pictures Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp, said it plans to make the Will Smith action […]

Sony announces Sony Playstation 3 movie download service »

Sony announced Thursday that it will launch a movie download service for the PlayStation 3 this summer in the U.S. market.
The movie-themed announcement came from Kazuo Hirai, who is the head of Sony’s video game unit. Hirai said the service will be offered in Japan and Europe at later dates. Further details on the service […]

‘Rescue Me’ minisodes stoke fans’ interest with webisodes during break »

FX’s Rescue Me, facing an extra-long break because of the writers’ strike, is turning to an unusual tactic to keep the fire burning for fans: a series of weekly five-minute segments, dubbed “minisodes,” that will air Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT starting next week.
The darkly comic series about NYC firefighters, starring Denis Leary, last aired in […]

Where TV and the Web converge, there is Hulu »

In a very short time, Hulu has rocketed from nothing to being one of the top video destinations on the Internet. We’ve all heard the years of trade-show claptrap about television-Web “convergence,” but Hulu has come as close as possible to turning your computer into a TV without actually sending a tech to monkey around […]