MUMBAI: Napster will shift its entire download sales catalog on PC service to the MP3 format in the second calendar quarter of 2008. All single track and album sales will be made available exclusively...
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WGA outs Videogame Writing Award nominees
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for the Guilds’ inaugural Videogame Writing Award, honoring outstanding achievement in videogame writing during 2007....
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Warner, NCM form marketing partnership
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. and National CineMedia (NCM) have formed a partnership to provide pre-feature entertainment content and advertising in movie theatres nationwide. Warner Bros. will provide original, exclusive content for NCM’s FirstLook pre-feature program,...
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Disney’s High School stars head to big screen
MUMBAI: The principal cast members from Disney’s High School Musical — Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman — will be reunited on the big screen for Walt...
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Apple to lower iTunes prices in the UK
MUMBAI: Within the next six months, Apple will lower the prices its charges for music on the UK iTunes Store to match the already standardized pricing on iTunes across Europe in Austria, Belgium, Denmark,...
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IndieGoGo’s social market for filmmakers
MUMBAI: IndieGoGo has launched IndieGoGo.com, an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent films happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience...
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Writers Guild of America & MRC ink agreement
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and MRC, the independent film, television, and digital studio, have reached an interim agreement that forges a new alliance between writers, producers, and financiers in the production...
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Analog Devices introduces HDAnywhere ent.
MUMBAI: The rapid growth of high-definition (HD) home entertainment systems has made the connections between an increasing number of sources and displays more difficult. High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) cables support a limited distance,...
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STM introduces digital TV platform
MUMBAI: ST Microelectronics, a supplier of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for digital TV, has announced the DTV150, its new cost-saving hardware platform. The DTV150 provides demodulation, MPEG-2 high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) decoding, full HD...
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Sony Pictures TV launches YouTube channels
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has debuted the first of several YouTube Brand Channels at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. The first of the ad-supported channels will be The Minisode Network (TMN). “Connecting...
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