Sonic offers both streaming technology and a library of 20, 000 licensed movie titles.
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According to the new deal, Amazon will get around 3, 000 movie titles from EPIX, enhancing its streaming catalog significantly.
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Until now Blu-Ray has been in the lead over HD DVD for the number of movie titles it has in its ranks--446 to HD's 395.
Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube was adding 3, 000 movie titles for rent, competing again against Amazon and Apple and this time throwing Zune and, oh yeah, Netflix.
While a number of studios and retailers have backed UltraViolet, fewer than a hundred movie titles have been made available on the service and only about one million consumers have established accounts.
Gaming will eventually eclipse the movie industry in sales, as titles sell for 6x that of movie tickets, and it will become ingrained into the culture of nearly all age groups, from old to young, as a generations raised on games grow up.
John Barry, best known for a succession of Bond movie scores, has two titles in the top 10.
Releasing new titles in hit movie series is always a sales driver, but neither camp has the clear lead here.
Plus, supporters of the Blu-ray technology have had an edge so far in brokering deals with movie studios for exclusive distribution of titles.
Nintendo also is piggybacking off the success 3-D has had in movie theaters, with three-dimensional titles such as "Avatar" setting box-office records.
Netflix Inc. is the largest online movie rental subscription service in the U.S. providing subscribers access to a comprehensive library of more than 18, 000 movie, television and other filmed entertainment titles.
Movie studios are readying a slew of BD3D titles this year, with IHS forecasting more than 65 titles for the U.S. market.
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They're also stuck attempting to sell both formats while movie studios are still reluctant to release AAA-titles on either as they figure out the technical aspects.
Digital Entertainment, LLC predicts that the solution's movie content ultimately will encompass more than 4000 major titles from multiple studio and distribution partners, which will be delivered direct to consumers via hard drives that may be swapped into the Center's drive-bays.
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In addition to the launch of the new channel, the agreement gives Sky Movies the first subscription pay TV movie rights in the UK and Ireland to other titles distributed by Disney, including new movies from Lucasfilm, and also Marvel Studios features such as Iron Man 3 and Avengers Assemble, which will be broadcast across the Sky Movies portfolio of channels.
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The MPAA has devoted years to fighting piracy in Washington, often holding private movie screenings of soon-to-be-released titles for Capitol Hill staffers at the studios' plush theater just a few blocks from the White House.
In addition to the titles displayed in the endcap, the Blu-ray movie selection is 23 wide by 5 high compared to the HD DVD's of 15 wide and 5 high (picture after the break).
After the 2011 ceremony, pre-orders for The King's Speech from Lovefilm were up 281% and other Colin Firth titles also saw renewed interest, including 2005's football movie Fever Pitch, which saw a 340% rise in rentals.
The book publisher is taking a page from its delay-happy movie industry friends when it comes to new releases, though: fresh titles won't show up at the library until they're six months out from first sale.
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Troy is the only one of these titles that is going to get Warner's "In-Movie Experience" treatment that is loaded with interactive video commentary.
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If you find a good movie today and return again in a week there'll be several hundred more titles to choose from.
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The tournament included two audio rounds, as well as several flash rounds of movie-title mashups, during which Mr. Kesner offered descriptions of two movies whose titles combine.
Verizon Wireless' viewdini makes it easy for users to search thousands of titles from some of the Web's leading content providers, TV sites, movie studios and cable operators.
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So while our total went up by 51 titles this week thanks to Paramount and others, there is still at least one good movie released exclusively on DVD this week in the way of Control (IMDB 8.0) thanks to Weinstein.
Available at no additional cost with a subscription to The Movie Network and TMN Encore, TMN GO offers instant and unlimited access to more than 1, 200 titles comprised of Hollywood hit movies, exclusive series from HBO, CINEMAX and Showtime, and classics from every era.
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