Google Chrome = Dead, Google Search = Hot
PC World Latest Technology News — ... , but I think the biggest challenge by far is compatibility. Web developers know that you had better make sure your site works with IE, and it probably better work with Firefox. Adding another one to the list is a losing proposition -- how many more hours of coding should they do for a browser with a .7 market share? I understand WC3 support, but in the open market of Web browsers, it's about more than just standards. The fact is, anytime a user tries to fire up Cinemanow.com and finds that Chrome doesn't work, it's like a stop sign on the Internet -- it makes the average ...

Dell, Qflix Deliver Legal Movie Burning [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... The drive works in conjunction with Venue, a software application from Sonic’s consumer division, Roxio. Venue allows you to connect to CinemaNow, the service’s only content partner, and view all Qflix-enabled titles. This is where the most serious limitation kicks in: When I tested the device, CinemaNow had fewer than 75 Qflix-enabled titles. Among the “new” releases: “Crash,” a movie that was released three years ago. Sonic says it hopes to have close to 1,000 titles available by the end of the year but notes ...

Dell, Qflix Deliver Legal Movie Burning [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... The drive works in conjunction with Venue, a software application from Sonic’s consumer division, Roxio. Venue allows you to connect to CinemaNow, the service’s only content partner, and view all Qflix-enabled titles. This is where the most serious limitation kicks in: When I tested the device, CinemaNow had fewer than 75 Qflix-enabled titles. Among the “new” releases: “Crash,” a movie that was released three years ago. Sonic says it hopes to have close to 1,000 titles available by the end of the year but notes ...

TiVo Adds Jaman, CinemaNow
NewTeeVee — ... that TiVo would be teaming up with CinemaNow to provide users with Disney movie rentals straight from their DVRs, they appear ready to unleash that content to the public, with digital film provider ...

Broadband Content Bits: YouTube's Longer Shows; NYT HD Video; Dell PCs Get Music, Movies; SNL/Palin
paidContent — ... —Dell PCs to ship with movies, music : Dell has partnered with CinemaNow and Universal Music Group to offer PCs that come pre-loaded with movies from studios like Paramount, Sony ( ...

Netflix via TiVo? Cool. But Not Cool Enough.
Technologizer — ... TV purchases are $1.99; movie purchases start at $9.99; new movie rentals are $3.99 to rent ($4.99 for HD); older titles are $2.99 ($3.99 for HD). Random thoughts: Steve Jobs may still claim that TV is a mere hobby for Apple, but the company’s done a good job of lining up content and has aggressively jumped into HD–and having a monopoly on distributing it to iPods and iPhones doesn’t hurt. It also comes as close as anyone to having easy-to-understand pricing and rental policies. CinemaNow What’s available? 2270 movies to purchase; 1199 movies to rent; 130 TV series to buy. ...

Two new Qflix-enabled DVD burners from Plextor
CrunchGear — ... The Qflix-enabled Plextor drives make it easy for consumers to download and burn their favorite movies and TV titles directly to a DVD for immediate viewing. Developed by Sonic Solutions and Pioneer in 2007, the unique Qflix software uses Roxio® Venue, a rich, user-friendly application that allows consumers to search for and download their favorite Hollywood hits from digital entertainment innovator, CinemaNow (www.cinemanow.com). Once downloaded, users are able to create a permanent and portable DVD-format copy onto Qflix- enabled optical media. ...

Online Movie Service Cinemanow Acquired By Sonic Solutions
paidContent — Cinemanow, the online movie service that has been around for a long time, has been bought by Sonic Solutions, the digital media software company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cinemanow, founded in 1999 along with the other rival movie service Movielink (which is now part of Blockbuster), was backed by Lionsgate, but never really took off. The company CEO Curt Marvis left earlier this year to join Lionsgate as its new president of digital media. Our streamlined mobile application for the BlackBerry and other smart devices brings you the latest headlines quickly on ...

VuNow Launching December 15th
Zatz Not Funny! — ... 15th. Initially dubbed “the PoD” when NewTeeVee introduced it in June, VuNow provides the sort of features we’re coming to expect in the current generation of media extenders… In additional to typical, local media streaming and playback, a variety of web video will be made available. Free content will be ferreted out through partnerships with YouTube and vTap, while premium content will be available for purchase through a partnership with CinemaNow (now owned by Sonic). Although the box was originally announced at $99, it’s ...

Online movie site CinemaNow sold for $3 million
Download Squad — ... Long before Hulu, or even YouTube were offering online video, and long before Apple or Amazon were selling digital downloads of TV shows and feature lenght films, there was CinemaNow and ...

News Bits: LG Links Up With YouTube, CinemaNow
Contentinople: — LG Electronics cut streaming media deals with YouTube and CinemaNow , allowing consumers that buy its Blu-ray Disc players to view online videos. The deal is similar to content deals that TiVo has struck to deliver content from Netflix and CinemaNow to consumers that buy its digital video recorders. LG struck a deal with Netflix earlier this year that allows viewers to download movies from Netflix to their Blu-ray players. Also in the news: The National Hockey League says it will offer U.S. hockey fans a free trial of its NHL GameCenter Live online subscription ...

LG's Blu-ray players to stream YouTube, CinemaNow
Obsessable News Feed — Electronics company LG has announced that some if its network-connected Blu-ray players will play video content from online video services YouTube and CinemaNow. Don't rush over and turn on your LG BD300, though; it won't work on current players. The new videos will only be available on new players to be announced at the Consumer Electronics Show next month. It's always nice to have extra content, but are you really going to watch extremely poor quality YouTube videos on your 42-inch HDTV? Up to you, we suppose! ...

LG Electronics Network Blu-ray disc players get new streaming content partners
Coolest Gadgets — ... lot of action, or do you just turn it on whenever guests drop by and are curious as to how High Definition movies look like compared to ordinary DVDs? Well, if you are on the lookout for an LG Blu-ray disc player, then we bring some uplifting news agains the tide of doom and gloom that’s flooding our media every day. LG Electronics has recently announced that it will be expanding its network entertainment options for its Network Blu-ray disc players by forging new alliances with CinemaNow and ...

Blockbuster To Offer Content On More Devices
WebProNews Feed — ... Partners with CinemaNow Blockbuster has partnered with Sonic Solutions to offer Video on Demand on a wide variety of consumer electronic devices in an effort to stay competitive with Netflix. The two companies are working with a number of consumer electronic manufacturers, including Sonic's CinemaNow , to expand the ecosystem of interoperable devices offering the Blockbuster service. The devices will include PCs, portable media players, Blu-ray Disc players, set-top boxes, mobile phones and Internet -connected television sets. The two companies will make their digital ...

Blockbuster Expands Its Online Rental Plans [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... Less clear is what this means for the CinemaNow, which had been trying to expand its own storefront presence on CE devices. ...

Bringing Up Open Source, Part 2: The Consumer Side
E-Commerce Times — Part 1 of this three-part series examined startup companies offering open source Linux MPS Pro Focus on Your Business — Not Your IT Infrastructure. More about open source software solutions on the enterprise market. Part 2 focuses on consumer-oriented products. The expansion of open source into new markets is prompting consumers to notice alternatives to traditional computing habits. Personal computing power now puts so much opportunity into the hands of consumers that previously impossible activities are possible without exposure to proprietary software. Open source projects are finding their way ...

Bringing Up Open Source, Part 2: The Consumer Side
LinuxInsider — Part 1 of this three-part series examined startup companies offering open source Linux MPS Pro Focus on Your Business — Not Your IT Infrastructure. More about open source software solutions on the enterprise market. Part 2 focuses on consumer-oriented products. The expansion of open source into new markets is prompting consumers to notice alternatives to traditional computing habits. Personal computing power now puts so much opportunity into the hands of consumers that previously impossible activities are possible without exposure to proprietary software. Open source projects are finding their way ...

Best Buy breaking into movie downloads?
VentureBeat — ... by forging a partnership with movie download service CinemaNow. Ideally, the agreement would allow the retailer to sell specially branded web-ready hardware (TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, etc.) that ships with automatic access to CinemaNow’s 14,000 feature-length titles. Since the goal is to offset Best Buy’s lagging DVD sales, speculation is pointing to a pay-per-download setup for the rumored service. ...

Best Buy Adds Download Store With Sonic Partnership
Contentinople: — ... (Nasdaq: SNIC) that will to make thousands of titles available for rent or purchase online through its Roxio CinemaNow download service . The deal gives Best Buy a quick on-ramp into selling digital content, as sales of physical media decline. For Sonic Solutions, the deal should substantially increase the visibility of its CinemaNow service, which the company ...

Widevine Secures Best Buy, Blockbuster Content Online
Contentinople: — ... (Nasdaq: SNIC) for the distribution of video content across a multitude of devices. But the partnership is not just about DRM. As part of the deal, Widevine will also provide adaptive streaming technology and interactive DVD features as well as DRM copy protection for video delivered via Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow video service . To do so, Sonic is including Widevine technology in a software development kit (SDK) that will enable digital storefronts from Best Buy, Blockbuster, and others selling CinemaNow content to be accessed from multiple Internet-connected devices, including ...

Sonic Solutions Rallies; Blair Bullish On Cinema Now
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... Schackart writes that he sees Sonic as “a leveraged bet on the transition of premium content form physical/packaged DVDs/media to digital distribution.” He says the company has a valuable asset for digital movie distribution with its Cinema Now business, “since it enables digital movie sharing across multiple digital devices and it can sell movies the day they are out on DVD.” ...

Roxio CinemaNow Brings Streaming Movies to the Wii (in Japan) [Wii]
Gizmodo — ... It might be more of a toe in the water than a real balls-out jump, but we're glad Nintendo is open to expanding the Wii's media capabilities. Remember, it's Japan-only for now, but we wouldn't be surprised to see this kind of integration appear Stateside. Press release to follow. [CinemaNow] ...

Nintendo Wii Gets CinemaNow Movies…in Japan [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... Movies will be delivered through Sonic Solutions’ Roxio CinemaNow, and Paramount has signed on as the first Hollywood studio to provide new release and library titles through Fujisoft’s “Minna no Theater Wii” (Everyone’s Theater Wii). ...

Paramount movies streaming to Wiis via Minna no Theater
Joystiq [Nintendo] — ... . The Roxio CinemaNow service, as offered through Minna no Theater, will offer both new releases and older titles from the Paramount archives, to users of the downloadable WiiWare video streaming application, which is currently available only in Japan. Though Lionsgate content isn't specified in this agreement, it's worth noting that Cinemanow also distributes movies from that company, an executive of which ...

Best Buy's Digital Land Grab
Contentinople: — ... of its movies on Series 2, Series 3, and TiVo HD DVRs. The implication here is that once the TiVo programming guide lands on Best Buy's CE devices, the retailer will be able to use Sonic's distribution platform to sell CinemaNow titles directly to consumers on their big-screen HDTVs (which they bought at Best Buy!). Sonic has done this sort of thing before. The company announced a partnership with ...

VuNow IPTV box gets CinemaNow movie streaming
SlashGear — ... have added Roxio CinemaNow streaming media purchases to the list of talents their VuNow IPTV box can boast.  The video-on-demand box can already show streaming content from local network storage or YouTube, and now adds Sonic Solutions’ 250 content providers to its line-up. ...

Online video store starts selling DivX-encoded Hollywood movies
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... required by the likes of CinemaNow . You're also free to make as many copies of your downloaded movies as you like, and you can re-download videos from the site if your original copy gets lost or damaged. ...

SNIC: After 1,000% Rally, Kaufman Says Sell
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... the movie download site CinemaNow. As Coffey notes, the digital movie delivery business - which the company is building from CinemaNow - has attracted investor attention. Earlier this week, for instance, ...

Best Buy Does Digital Movies
Technologizer — ... when all of the content we rent and buy comes to us via the Internet rather than on shiny discs we buy in stores? The company won’t go the way of Tower Records or the Virgin Megastores, but it’ll surely miss the money it made selling CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray. And it’s clearly girding itself for the day when those racks of discs go away. Last year, it bought music subscription service Napster–and now it’s announcing a partnership with Sonic’s Roxio CinemaNow service to get into the digital movie business. Most details ...

Cinema Now movies-on-demand service to be built into Best Buy’s web-connected gadgets
VentureBeat — ... CinemaNow has had moderate success with its movies-on-demand service, which lets users download movies over the web. But it’s announcing a real coup today with the nation’s biggest electronics retailer that could make the digital downloading of movies into a mass market phenomenon. ...

Best Buy + CinemaNow
Download Squad — ... US electronics retailer Best Buy is preparing to enter the digital video distribution business in a big way. The company is partnering with CinemaNow, an online video download service that lets users rent and purchase movies and TV shows. Best Buy will ...

Is Sezmi a Cable TV Killer?
Technologizer — ... or satellite, but it’s got Animal Planet, Bravo, Cartoon Network,  CNN, Comedy Central, Discovery, MSNBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, Oxygen, SyFy, TBS, TCM, TLC, TNT, VH1, and more. The most notable omissions are sports channels–I don’t see ESPN or others in the lineup–and premium movie channels such as HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax. But Sezmi does offer a store that sells and rents movies and TV shows from a library of thousands of titles (powered in part by Roxio’s Cinemanow). You also get access to Internet video such as YouTube and podcasts. ...

Six ways to watch movies on your Mac
Macworld — ... into that same rumpus room and devoted some of its time to entertainment. Once you accept the notion of a Mac as a home media player, your next thoughts naturally turn to movies and, likely, the iTunes Store. But the Store isn’t the end-all-and-be all of online movie sources. Although outfits such as CinemaNow and ...