A window closeth

While Hollywood frets about what to do about the theatrical-to-DVD release window, the DVD-to-VOD window just came closer to being slammed shut. The WSJ reports that MovieBeam, which was recently split off from Disney, will start offering video-on-demand movies on the same day as the DVD release in 29 cities:

MovieBeam plans to transmit 10 new movies a week to an antenna in a customer’s home over broadcast signals leased from the Public Broadcasting Service’s digital-content delivery unit, National Datacast Inc.

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