http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/03/best.buy.deal.to.give.online.movies.as.bonus/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/bestbuy-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Best Buy today struck a deal with Roxio to create a unique online and DVD hybrid movie service for the big-box retailer. The unnamed project hopes to give users buy once, play anywhere privileges: those who buy a DVD in-store will then have access to a CinemaNow-based portal for watching movies both on computers as well as on smartphones and Internet-aware Blu-ray players. Many of the movies wil... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/03/best.buy.deal.to.give.online.movies.as.bonus/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/08/netgear.digital.entertainer.live/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/netgeardigitalentertainerlive.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Netgear is adding to its line of set-top boxes with a low-end device that supports 720p HD but lacks a hard drive and built-in wireless. The Digital Entertainer Live relies mostly on its Ethernet-based online access and has built-in support for YouTube, pay-per-view movies from CinemaNow and live internet TV through VuNow. Resembling one of Netgear's internet routers, the small device has both t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/08/netgear.digital.entertainer.live/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/26/film.fresh.divx.movies/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/filmfresh.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Young movie store Film Fresh today launched itself as the first US-based movie store to provide downloads from larger studios in DivX form. Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony and Warner have all agreed to include both recent and classic titles on the store and as a result have created one of the first few truly cross-platform movie services. Although the videos are still copy-protected, the choice of Di... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/26/film.fresh.divx.movies/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/26/sonic.zip.movie.downloads/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/zipca.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Canadian rent-by-mail DVD service Zip.ca said today that it's in talks with Sonic Solutions, the owner of the Roxio CinemaNow movie download service, to bring the first large-scale movie download service in Canada. The partnership will allow PC and portable multimedia device users to download TV shows and movies, making it somewhat akin to the streaming feature Netflix offers its US customers; it'... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/26/sonic.zip.movie.downloads/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/25/wii.to.get.cinemanow/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0810/nintendowii.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sonic Solutions, the company behind Roxio, on Thursday announced its streaming movie service CinemaNow will be made available for the Nintendo Wii. Sonic will partner with Fujisoft to bring the former's content to the game console via the latter's video-on-demand Everyone's Theater Wii service. While the announcement only covers Japan, its successful integration potentially leads to the service ar... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/25/wii.to.get.cinemanow/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/17/best.buy.movie.store.rumor/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/bestbuy.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />If accurate, a rumor floated today will see Best Buy leap into its own online movie store. Entertainment magazine Variety claims to have heard from movie studio executives that the retailer is talking to CinemaNow and "other online movie services" to establish a link between itself and one of these services. While what's involved is uncertain, Best Buy is likely to arrange for a cut of the reven... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/17/best.buy.movie.store.rumor/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/07/blockbuster.may.exit/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/blockbusterdvd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Blockbuster yesterday submitted a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that reveals the company doesn't believe it can continue business. The video store is no longer certain that it can remain a "going concern" and may have to stop operations and close its doors if its financial situation doesn't improve in the near future. The warning comes in spite of a $250 million refinancing loan h... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/07/blockbuster.may.exit/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/14/blockbuster.sonic.team.up/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/blockbusterdvd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions on Wednesday announced a multi-year agreement that will have the former deliver its library of digital movies and shows to home and portable electronics devices with Internet connectivity and Sonic software. The companies will also merge their digital libraries ñ including Sonic's recently purchased CinemaNow ñ and offer them under the Blockbuster brand, to create o... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/14/blockbuster.sonic.team.up/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/08/lg.netcast.blu.ray.players/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/lgbd390intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />At its CES press conference on Wednesday, LG unveiled a pair of Blu-ray players with a world-first NetCast entertaintment Access, featuring access to streaming HD movies from Netflix, the CinemaNow library and YouTube videos. While both can bring the videos to usersí living rooms, only the BD390 sports 7.1-channel audio support, Wi-Fi connectivity and 1GB of built-in memory. Either can access on... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/08/lg.netcast.blu.ray.players/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/31/lg.adds.cinemanow.ytube/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/lggtemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />LG has announced the addition of two new entertainment options to its network-enabled Blu-ray players, CinemaNow and YouTube. CinemaNow offers some 14,000 movies, TV shows and other videos, and should join YouTube on LG players in the first half of 2009. LGís only instant-streaming entertainment option is currently Netflix, which provides over 12,000 movies and TV shows, a portion of which are av... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/31/lg.adds.cinemanow.ytube/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:35:00 GMT