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Movies You've Heard Of Coming To YouTube. Will You Rent Them?

Peter Kafka in Media on April 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm PT

YouTube is finally ready to move its movie rental service from a long-running test into a real, bona fide movie store. The problem for both Hollywood and YouTube: Consumers seem to like the Netflix subscription service more than one-off rentals.

Will Facebook Be the Mall of the Future?

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 14, 2011 at 10:36 am PT

It’s where teenagers go to hang out. It’s where they gossip. And it’s where more than half a billion people spend a lot of their time. No, it’s not the mall. It’s Facebook.

"Trailer Trash" Is No "Family Guy," But Hulu Is Happy to Have It

Peter Kafka in Media on March 14, 2011 at 7:59 am PT

For now, Hulu is the place to go if you want to watch network TV shows on the Web. But Hulu’s relationship with its owners, who supply it with most of those TV shows, is… a work in progress. So you can see why CEO Jason Kilar is trying to build up a roster of his own shows.

Netflix Shatters Pay TV Window With FilmDistrict Deal

John Paczkowski in News on December 1, 2010 at 7:48 am PT

Intent on remaking the cable landscape, Netflix this morning inked another distribution deal, this one with FilmDistrict. Under its terms, first-run films that typically would have been licensed to cable channels for broadcast during the so-called “pay TV window” will now instead go to Netflix for streaming.

It's Official: Epix, Netflix Announce "Multi-Year" Deal for Streaming Movies

Peter Kafka in Media on August 10, 2010 at 4:45 am PT

Epix and Netflix, mum yesterday, are now happy to talk. The two companies have confirmed a big, expensive deal that gives Netflix the ability to show the pay-TV service’s movies on its streaming video offering.

Warner and Redbox Settle Up; Consumers Will Wait to Watch

Peter Kafka in Media on February 16, 2010 at 1:19 pm PT

Redbox, which looked like a major problem for Hollywood a few months ago, may be a little more palatable after all. Now Redbox renters, like Netflix subscribers, will have to wait a month to watch their favorite new movies.

YouTube Preps Its (Sort of) Hulu Answer: Movies, TV Shows From Sony, Others

Peter Kafka in Media on April 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm PT

Here’s Google’s sort-of answer to Hulu: A newly designed page to showcase TV shows and movies, along with new players and a new ad strategy. What’s not included: almost any first-run TV show or newly released movie. That’s the content that’s made Hulu successful and what’s also driven traffic to offerings from CBS and Disney’s ABC. You can’t accuse the Google guys of overselling this: In a press conference today, they described it as a “first step, a baby step.”

If You Know the Name of the Movie You'd Like to See, Press ❑

John Paczkowski in News on July 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm PT

Now that Sony has completed its transformation from disruptive innovator to struggling consumer electronics player, it’s embarking on its next big corporate makeover: reinvention as “a global provider of networked consumer electronics and entertainment.” And so it’s begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 videogame console.

If You Know the Name of the Movie You’d Like to See, Press ?

John Paczkowski in News on July 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm PT

Now that Sony has completed its transformation from disruptive innovator to struggling consumer electronics player, it’s embarking on its next big corporate makeover: reinvention as “a global provider of networked consumer electronics and entertainment.” And so it’s begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 videogame console.