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"Fast-growing Internet services like Netflix Inc. (NFLX), online movie purchases and DVD rentals from Redbox kiosks lifted U.S. home-video spending in the third quarter, countering the continued drop in DVD sales. Total sales rose 0.2 percent to $3.94 billion, the industry-backed Digital Entertainment Group said today in an e- mailed statement. Revenue from subscription streaming more than doubled while online purchases of movies and TV shows rose almost 38 percent, the group said."

The abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz app is cool and could be a nice concept for entertainment clients.

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"The company has just signed deals with Broadcom, Marvell and Intel to integrate its Wiimote-style controller into the trio's home-entertainment hardware. Playing with it for a few minutes, we were impressed by its accuracy, although gestures did take a little time to get used to."

Train handles turned into a gaming platform. Only a concept at this point

Supreme court case is in 11 days. Even if Aereo loses there's the "home" version - Tablo - to haunt Pay TV. It's only a matter of time... http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/nuvyyo-launches-tablo-air-tv-dvr-targeting-cord-cutters/#!EeaKZ

Holy Smoley, this is the in home version of Aereo only better. The pay TV war against Aereo could be irrelevant if this kind of technology takes off. NOTE: it's probably to geeky and expensive to go mass in it's current form ($219 box+monthly sub+separate external hard drive) but a cheaper all in one option could be a game changer.

Sony's PlayStation 3 virtual world, Home, has 14 million registered users, and now the company is teaming with social games company, Codename, to produce social games within the virtual world.

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"This is a story about devices: NPD figures that 10 percent of homes now have at least one Internet-enabled TV (though I bet that only a minority of them are actually plugged into the Web), and we're seeing a steady increase in the use of Web-video peripherals, like Blu-ray players, Apple TVs, Microsoft Xbox 360s. And it's also about content: NPD says the most popular service for Web on TV viewers is Netflix, with 40 percent of connected TV watchers using the service."

the BilioTech will be an entirely new public space equipped with computers, e-readers and wifi access. Upon launch, the county hopes to have around 10,000 titles available to peruse on its devices. Personnel will still be on hand to help customers with their research and members will be able to take their e-books home with them by checking out e-readers.

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Sonic Solutions said today that its movie services will be available on consumer electronics gear sold at Sears and Kmart stores. Novato, Calif.-based Sonic provides the RoxioNow platform, which can deliver digital movies over Internet connections to home devices such as PCs, TVs, Blu-ray players and mobile phones. In a multi-year deal with Sears Holdings, owner of 3,000 Sears and Kmart stores, Sonic will offer movies and TV shows for rent or purchase. The new services are expected to launch later this year and will be broadly promoted at retail stores. used in daily 6.22

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