EPIX and Netflix announce an agreement through which Netflix members can instantly watch an array of new releases and library titles from EPIX streamed over the Internet from Netflix. Movies from the multi-year deal will begin streaming from Netflix on September 1 and include movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM.

EPIX has subscription pay TV rights to new releases and movies from the libraries of its partners and will make these movies available to Netflix 90 days after their premium pay TV and subscription on demand debuts. Historically, the rights to distribute these films are pre-sold to pay TV for as long as nine years after their theatrical release.

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EPIX and Netflix Announce Exclusive Internet-Only Deal to Instantly Stream EPIX Movies to Netflix Members

Buried in recent news has been the revelation that Universal Music has stopped supplying music videos to MTV and is to instead feature them on their own Vevo internet video platform.
There is a real dichotomy here: music videos were long seen as a promotional piece, a kind of advert, for the music. But that has, of course, changed. Also, MTV has very little to do with music any more. However, the exposure that the label will get from dropping such distribution in favour of building its own service shows that content owners have a clear choice.

They have to become wholesalers or they need to be retailers – being both at the same time is an increasingly difficult position to maintain.

Meanwhile, the $1bn dollar deal between Netflix and Epix (a Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate JV), along with a recent similar announcement from BSKyB with HBO in the UK, shows the stakes involved and why it is so difficult for any new entrant into this market to gain a foothold.

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UITStor announces its new UEBO consumer electronics line has partnered with PlayOn, a service from Internet TV service provider MediaMall Technologies. The partnership will bring a number of Internet TV channels and video content services to the TVs of UEBO customers via a simple, convenient TV remote control interface.

With the UEBO M200 Media Player, available summer 2010, consumers can play nearly every popular media file format via their TVs and HDTVs with no time-consuming transcoding needed. In addition to allowing you to play and view all of your audio, digital and video files, the media player provides easy access to Internet content including real-time weather, news, Picasa and Flickr content as well as Internet radio stations via Shoutcast. The device even provides PC-Less BitTorrent downloading capabilities to avoid having to leave your PC on or having your PC infested with viruses that sometimes come with the downloaded file. A network-attached storage functionality allows for sharing of content over home networks.

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UEBO Partners With PlayOn to Offer Expansive Variety of Internet Video Content on Your TV

Netflix will expand into Canada this fall offering unlimited movies and TV episodes streamed instantly to TVs and computers for one low monthly fee. The Canadian launch will mark the first availability of Netflix outside the United States.

Canadian Netflix members will be able to instantly watch a broad array of movies and TV episodes right on their TVs via a range of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming from Netflix, as well as watching on PCs and Macs.

In addition to representing its inaugural international market, Canada will also mark the first streaming-only service promoted by Netflix.

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Netflix To Launch Canadian Service for Streaming Movies and TV Episodes Later This Year

Widevine announces support for Dolby Digital Plus in its video optimization and digital rights management platform to bring the movie theater-like experience directly to the living room via the Internet.

Dolby Digital Plus is a versatile, scalable digital audio coding technology that extends the capabilities of Dolby Digital, delivering up to 7.1 channels of surround sound. It supports a wide range of bit rates to ensure optimized sound quality and efficiency to match available bandwidth. It also enables advanced applications such as multiple-program support and audio stream mixing.

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Widevine to Provide Internet TV and Movie Experience with Support for Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound