PlayStation 3 gets BD-Live upgrade this month MARCH 20 | After a long wait, PlayStation 3 will be able to playback Web-enabled BD-Live software this month. This upgrade, coming in late March through a firmware update, will turn PS3 into the industry’s first Profile 2.0 Blu-ray Disc player, which represents the most advanced capabilities for hardware in the format. Profile 2.0 players can download programming from the Web through their Ethernet port connections.
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MARCH 20 | TiVo is likely to sign more agreements this year that would allow digital video recorder customers to download content from video Web sites to their TVs, after the company struck a deal with Google’s YouTube last week and released its Web-video software this week.
MARCH 20 | Warner Premiere has wrapped production on the first title of its made-for-DVD series The Clique. The company, a division of Warner Home Video, should be streeting the title by fourth quarter.
MARCH 20 | Barnes & Noble said fiscal fourth-quarter earnings beat analyst estimates as more online sales overcame lower margins from holiday discounts. DVD sales was highlighted as a strong segment for the retailer.
MARCH 20 | Blockbuster this week began giving away an online computer-game version of Stephen King’s The Mist in an effort to promote the Weinstein Co. film, which will be released on DVD next week.
MARCH 20 | Borders Group said early this morning that it hired investment bankers to explore a possible sale of the company. Borders also said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit lagged analyst expectations on lower gross margins from holiday discounts.
The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that Verizon has emerged as the winner of the prime "C-block" from the agency's recent 700-megahertz spectrum auction.
A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content -- including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption -- and professional journalists, movie makers and record labels, along with the deep-pocketed companies that back them.
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Sickhouse at Wizard World New Line promoted its DVD premiere The Sickhouse with star Gina Philips at sci-fi, horror, fantasy and comic convention Wizard World, held at the L.A. Convention Center in Los Angeles on March 15-16.
A Steep event Professional skier Andrew McLean (r.) taped a segment for Best Damn Sports Show Period in Snowbird, Utah, to promote Sony’s Steep DVD.
The stars of Stargate To promote Fox’s DVD premiere Stargate: The Ark of Truth, the cast embarked on a satellite media tour.
3/14/2008 OPINION: No neutrality on net neutrality Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda MARCH 14 | There has been a striking evolution in the studios’ position on the subject of network neutrality, from initially ignoring the issue, to urging regulators not to do anything too radical, to now, full-throated opposition to efforts to mandate equal treatment of all bits crossing a network. More
