Monday - January 5, 2009
Netflix is coming to a high-definition LG Electronics television near you. The two companies on Monday announced an extension of an existing partnership whereby LG will sell Internet-ready TVs capable of streaming content from a catalog of 12,000 Netflix movies. The service is already available on one of LG's Blu-ray disc players. The firms will demonstrate the new high-def broadband TVs this week at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, the tech industry's largest annual exhibition.
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Wednesday - December 31, 2008
Despite all the attention being paid to the creation of 3-D films, the immense catalog of existing 2-D movies ready for 3-D conversion provides a massive market ripe for exploitation. Techniques to convert existing 2-D images for 3-D presentation have existed throughout the entire history of 3-D, but few have been effective or even survived.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
3-D has been given a really big job -- coax audiences young and old alike away from their big screen home TVs, their PCs and their video games and back into movie theaters. On Dec. 4, 3ality Digital joined forces with Beverly Hills-based RealD and the National Football League to test a 3-D broadcast experience designed to immerse viewers in the game as never before.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Wanted: Movie theater projectionists with IT experience in network systems and client/server environments to operate digital cinema systems. Qualifications and requirements: systems analysis capabilities, a thorough working knowledge of e-business applications deployment, including implementation of a variety of IT systems in a computing and business environment.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
The real estate crisis in this country is felt in the workplace. It's impacting our leisure time. It's affecting the way we look at everything. Actually ... make that how we look at everything that's in the video we watch on our smartphone screens. The 2.5 to 3.5-inch screen real estate on our iPhones, Storms, Dares and G1s is training a generation of users to consume their video on a very small scale.
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Wednesday - December 17, 2008
New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a 4 percent tax on digital music downloads and other "digitally delivered entertainment services." The "iPod Tax," as it's become known, is just one of many new taxes the governor has proposed in an effort to close the state's multibillion-dollar budget gap.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
Even as technology threatens the survival of video rental stores, serial entrepreneur Stuart Skorman thinks there's still a place for the movie-matchmaking advice of veteran video store clerks. To prove his point, Skorman hired more than 20 former video store clerks to pour their collective wisdom into a new Internet search engine, ClerkDogs, that's being unleashed Tuesday.
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Friday - November 28, 2008
Blockbuster on Tuesday threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of set-top boxes with the announcement of a deal with hardware maker 2Wire. Blockbuster's system will bring video directly to viewers' televisions on demand via a broadband Internet connection. The move follows similar offerings from competitors.
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Tuesday - November 25, 2008
Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.
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Monday - November 24, 2008
It's been said that the meek shall inherit the Earth, but in the cutthroat world of technology, only the bold survive. Some of the biggest names in the high-tech and media sectors launched initiatives in the last year that have changed the landscape -- perhaps permanently.
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