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On soap operas, the sexy leads will often kiss, date, mate, hiss, throw things, break up, make up and kiss again. And that works on a soap. But the whole on-again-off-again thing isn’t quite so cute when it comes to the digital television transition. Many consumers are fed up with the mixed messages...
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In the new season of “Lost” premiering Jan. 21, expect a lawyer to show up at the home of Kate Austen and demand a sample of blood. Someone—he can’t say who—wants to know if Kate is actually related to her son Aaron. If you want to know more, you’ll have to tune in, but those details were...
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HBO will preview the first episode of the new season of its comedy “Flight of the Conchords” on the FunnyorDie.com Web site this week, a month before the series launches on the cable channel. HBO bought a stake in the Will Ferrell-backed site earlier this year. The sneak peek, which will last four days...
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The Internet has a new designer drug and its name is Boxee. Sure, the name is clunky. And yep, the service is even clunkier. But consider what Boxee does: It brings Hulu to your television set. Boxee is a new service that’s popular among the just-graduated-from-college-crowd and the tech cognoscenti...
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Disney-ABC Television Distribution’s “Legend of the Seeker” is being made available online via Apple’s iTunes store, making it the only first-run syndicated series to be made available via the download site. Episodes of “Seeker,” which premiered last weekend, will become available on iTunes the Monday...
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Hailing itself as the most popular online TV store, Apple’s iTunes Store has sold more than 200 million show episodes, including topping the 1 million mark for HD episodes. Apple began offering HD television content last month, charging $2.99 per episode, compared with $1.99 for standard-definition shows...
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Keith Olbermann let me down. In my first 24 hours without traditional TV programming the one show I watch daily on Apple TV was nowhere to be found. I’m talking about MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the very show I trumpeted in last week’s column as being the easiest to watch on my Apple TV...
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Has the time come to get rid of my television? I’m not referring to just my specific provider here. I mean no cable TV. No satellite TV. No rabbit ears. Can it be done yet? Can broadband video fill the void? I’m going to let the readers decide. Yes, I’m offering myself up as a guinea pig for the broadband...
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More HD Shows Coming to iTunes Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the release of iTunes 8 at a press conference Tuesday in San Francisco, Hollywood.com reports. The new version of iTunes will allow for the availability of more HD releases of shows for download, which can then be streamed on Apple TVs. Currently...
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In the new NBC Universal-Apple deal announced today, NBC said, it obtained the pricing flexibility it has been demanding from iTunes for the last year. That’s what J.B. Perrette, president of digital distribution at NBC Universal, told TelevisionWeek during a phone interview after an Apple event in San...
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Apple and NBC ended their yearlong spat today. Shows from NBC and some of its cable networks will return to Apple’s iTunes store, one full year after NBC defected from Apple in a public dispute over pricing. Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the announcement today in San Francisco at an Apple event . The shows...
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HBO is releasing the first four seasons of its Emmy Award-winning series “Entourage” through Apple’s iTunes store over the next few weeks in anticipation of the show’s fifth-season premiere. Seasons one and two are available for download now for $1.99 per episode. Season three will hit the digital store...
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The digital delivery of TV programming and movies is a small business and isn’t going to replace traditional entertainment dollars any time soon, said Kevin Klowden, managing economist at the Milken Institute, during a morning session at NATPE's LATV Festival. “This is a small market, and there is...
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The CW has lifted its ban on Internet streaming of "Gossip Girl." The network made headlines last spring when it announced it would stop streaming episodes of the buzzworthy soap opera on its Web site. At the time, CW executives described it as an experiment. Turns out the experiment didn't...
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"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" has found a new home. Joss Whedon's new Internet musical, which has been available for streaming since Monday, is now for sale via iTunes. Consumers can buy one episode for $1.99 or the whole 40-minute movie for $3.99. Like the streaming video version...