Add one more customer to sign onto Sonic Solutions' wildly popular Qflix encryption service. Online...

Add one more customer to sign onto Sonic Solutions' wildly popular Qflix encryption service. Online movie service, CinemaNow has licensed Sonic's anti-piracy encryption service, which provides the same Content Scramble System as commercially mass-produced DVDs and can play in any set-top DVD player.

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Among heavily trafficked web portals and countless blogs, traditional television programming is...

Among heavily trafficked web portals and countless blogs, traditional television programming is about to become much more ubiquitous over the Internet.

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Blockbuster will triple stores with Blu-ray

APRIL 10 | Blockbuster will almost triple the number of stores that carry Blu-ray discs and will add Blu-ray display kiosks to almost all of its U.S. company-owned stores in an effort to boost revenue from high-definition disc rentals.

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Another Look at Netflix's TV Box

What would set-up box actually mean for users, and for Netflix? For one thing, it wouldn't address the main hurdle for digital downloads: which is not technology, but intellectual property.

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Cablevision offers VOD, DVD simultaneously

FEB. 4 | Cablevision has begun offering on demand movies from Universal Studios and Warner Bros. the same day they debut on DVD with one caveat—viewers must also purchase the movie on disc. Universal films The Bourne Ultimatum, The Kingdom, Eastern Promises and upcoming release American Gangster

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Rentrak hopes to crack TV ratings

The digital information recorded by the box and sent back to the cable operator represents a treasure-trove of viewing behavior far more detailed than Nielsen ratings generated from a sample of 12,000 homes nationwide.

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TiVo shrinks loss in latest quarter

NOV. 29 | TiVo narrowed its loss more than expected in its fiscal third quarter ended Oct. 31. Revenue rose by 14% to $75.5 million, up from $66 million a year ago.

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Netflix Set Top Box Rumor Returns

Netflix has filed paperwork to include set-top TV boxes under the Netflix logo, once again fueling (reserved) speculation that it's finally ready to roll out a television-ready receiver. The filing, just discovered today by Trademork.

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Best Buy says Bye To Analog TV

Starting this month, Best Buy has stopped selling analog TV sets, hoping to ease consumers' transition to digital. For some time, Best Buy has overwhelmingly promoted its high-def sets in advertising circulars.

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CinemaNow, Macrovision offer ‘Connected Platform’

JAN. 3 | Movie download service CinemaNow and digital solutions firm Macrovision announced a deal to allow users to download CinemaNow titles onto consumer electronics devices and share them over a home network, using Macrovision’s Connected Platform technology.

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