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Walmart to Rip DVDs for Consumers With TV/Film Industry Partnership Ultraviolet Transfers to the cloud cost $2 to $4 in addition to product purchase price

Walmart is launching a DVD-ripping service for its customers, uploading their movies to UltraViolet's cloud so that they're accessible via the big-box chain's Vudu service. The service represents a partnership…

March 13 2012

Broadcasters File Suit Against Aereo Ask for permanent injunction against the online TV service

Broadcaster owners in New York filed lawsuits Thursday against Aereo, a service that delivers broadcast TV via the Internet. In two separate complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for…

March 02 2012

Time Warner CEO Pushes TV Everywhere as a Necessity for Cable Operators Bewkes talks future of VOD at Deutsche Bank conference

Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes isn't exactly known for his shyness on the subject of streaming video on demand services, having referred to Netflix as both "a 200-pound…

February 28 2012

Yet Another Streaming Service: Comcast's Xfinity Streampix On the 'TV Everywhere' model, Comcast is providing VOD to its customers to compete with Netflix

All right, it's more or less raining new streaming services at this point. Comcast is the latest company to unveil a new streaming VOD client, hot on the heels of…

February 21 2012

Turner, CBS Say College Hoops Fans Must Pay—Somehow Wanted: proof of cable subscription, or $3.99

RIP, MMOD. Turner Sports and CBS Sports, which last year became partners in broadcasting the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, have shaken up the way they deliver the tournament’s 67 games via…

February 16 2012

New Company Aereo to Provide Online Streaming of Broadcast TV Service available to New York residents; backed by Barry Diller/IAC

First-run broadcast content has long been the holy grail in the streaming wars; now, it's coming to New York residents via a new company called Aereo. The Web-based service will…

February 14 2012

Amazon Licenses Loads of Viacom Content Pact covers material licensed by Netflix in a nonexclusive earlier deal

Hot on the heels of Verizon's announcement that it too would be entering the streaming content wars, Amazon has added a large library of Viacom content to its $79 per…

February 08 2012

Skype Co-Founder Launching Vdio, a Netflix Competitor Only available in the U.K. for now

With Netflix busy fighting its months-long battle against bad publicity, the time is ripe for a new video streaming service to knock the former giant from its perch. At least…

October 18 2011

UltraViolet Adds Streaming Access to DVD and Blu-Ray Studios, retailers, tech companies team up to save sales

With consumers watching movies on everything from their smartphones to their iPads, buying a DVD version that can only be played on a TV set or computer seems pretty limiting…

October 11 2011

Netflix Reverses Its Qwikster Rebranding DVD and streaming services won't be split up after all

Say goodbye to Qwikster. The short-lived Netflix spinoff is no more, according to a post on the Netflix blog by CEO Reed Hastings earlier today. Henceforth, mail-order DVDs and streaming…

October 10 2011

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