Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Direct-to-iPod Delivery
Imagine if you will the not so distant future. A future where you will take your all-in-one iMac-portable and plug it into a kiosk and upload your favorite movies, music and other content with the touch of a screen (who uses a mouse?). That new Shia LeBeouf, Keira Knightley movie is yours (for a limited time, or for [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
headlines
Blu-ray celebrates while the regular dvd slips. The Golden Globes are off, Leno and Letterman are on and UA strikes a deal with striking writers.
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
HD DVD takes a hit
Warner Bros. announced that they will no longer be the only studio in town releasing content on both formats. Warner Brothers Home Enterainment chief Kevin Tsujihara announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas that “by us being both, we were playing into consumer confusion.” Only Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks remain studio side. Other supporters include Microsoft and [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The #1 you don’t want to achieve
The top illegally downloaded film over BitTorrent in 2007 was Transformers. It comes as no surprise as the top 4 are all films directed towards young males. The top 4 rounds out with Knocked Up, 300, and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Hard to say exactly how this affected the box office receipts of these films as they [...]