Video Business: Weekly E-News Summary

JULY 12 | E3: CULVER CITY, Calif.—Sony Corp. is expanding its PlayStation Portable handheld game console, positioning it more as a gaming unit than a media player.

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Video Business: Weekly E-News Summary

With all eyes trained on Blockbuster’s possible acquisition of Movielink, Movie Gallery unexpectedly acquired substantially all of the assets, technology and operations of MovieBeam, a near-on-demand movie service owned by Walt Disney Co.

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TiVo to tote YouTube to TVs

MARCH 12 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: TiVo inked a deal with Google's YouTube that will let its digital video recorder customers watch soccer bloopers, Japanese music videos, something called "Vampire Robot Nazis Strike Back!" and thousands of other user-uploaded clips on their TVs.

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Video Business: Weekly E-News Summary

Two movies on Blu-ray Disc were sold for every one sold on the HD DVD format during January, according to studio sources. However, it’s hard to get an even comparison as not all movies are available on both formats. Full Story

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TiVo launches Web video application

MARCH 18 | TiVo said Tuesday that its DVR subscribers will be able to watch video content from the Web directly on their television sets.

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Mojo inks deal for Amazon Unbox

NOV. 14 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: In Demand Networks’ male-targeted HD channel Mojo signed a deal to sell its original programming through Amazon.com’s Unbox digital video download service.

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TiVo Q4 loss narrows on lower marketing costs

MARCH 5 | TiVo’s fiscal fourth-quarter loss narrowed by 67% as hardware costs were cut in half from a year earlier, when the company gave away standard-definition digital-video recorders as part of a holiday promotion.

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Netflix builds TV connection with Wood

Wood will be responsible for all aspects of product development related to the company’s initiatives in delivering movies from the Internet to the TV. He reports to chief product officer Neil Hunt.

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TiVo plans more Web video deals

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.

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More links for Amazon

The search platform has embedded the Amazon Unbox Video Previewer onto its site so ClipBlast users can view videos online. The best part for Amazon: Viewers are then encouraged to click through to Amazon Unbox to get a full-length movie rental for $3.99 or download a TV show episode for $1.99.

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