LAT: DVD Deal Lets Films Go From Web to TV

[DeepModem Mom]

DVD Deal Lets Films Go From Web to TV
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2006

Hollywood studios will cross a significant technological and psychological frontier today when they offer the first downloadable movies that can be legally burned onto a DVD.

Four major studios struck a deal with online movie service CinemaNow Inc. to offer more than 100 mainstream titles that can be copied to a disc and played on almost any DVD player or television set. Prices will start at about $9 a movie.

The deal was hailed as a milestone in Internet distribution, giving film fans what they've long demanded: the convenience of downloading a movie and playing it on the living room TV.

Today's launch also previews a likely agreement between the major studios and Apple Computer Inc., which is expected to expand the offerings on its popular iTunes online store to include big-studio movies. Several studio executives Tuesday confirmed that they were holding talks with Apple but did not want to be named because of the sensitive nature of the discussions....

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Coupled with the CinemaNow agreement, an Apple deal would cement the Internet as a viable film distribution vehicle. Although studios have offered online movies since 2002, fears over piracy have kept the films locked to computer hard drives or to discs that play only on a PC. That restriction has kept the market for legal movie downloads relatively limited....

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-dvdburn19jul19,0,7666879.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[MrPrax]

1. LOL...9 bucks.

Your ISP, your computer, your blank, your burner, your time and you GIVE THEM 9 dollars...bwahaha

There is a sucker born every minute...