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Digital Media: Competition, DTT force Imagenio price cut -- Spanish telco Telefonica is revamping its triple play package in order to give away its Internet TV practically free-of-charge.
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Digital Media: Investigation into VOD venture extended -- The proposed online video-on-demand joint venture between Blighty?s ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide has been dealt another setback, with U.K. competition regulators extending the deadline for their probe into the service.
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Digital Media: Leaked report reveals scale of pircy problem -- According to a report from a leading national anti-piracy association, close to 450,000 illegal downloads of recent films are being made every day in France, putting illegal pirate copies close to the level of legitimate box-office entries.
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Digital Media: Digital start-up is backed by former Endemol boss -- New digital video distributor myvideorights.com has added British TV shingle All3Media International to its growing list of content partners.
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Digital Media: Number of pics on VOD up 14.6% -- Video-on-demand in France has received a $1.6 million cash injection from the Centre National de la Cinematographie, Gaul's government-backed film and TV funder.
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Digital Media: Huggers to start new role in August -- The BBC has confirmed the appointment of former Microsoft topper Erik Huggers as its new director of future media and technology.
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Digital Media: Online drama to launch on iVillage UK -- FremantleMedia is partnering with NBC Universal-owned iVillage U.K. to launch an online comedy-drama series aimed at young mothers.
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Digital Media: Universal strikes new deal for on-demand service -- Universal Pictures? subscription on-demand movie service, PictureBox, is to bow on another U.K. platform following a deal with hybrid broadband offer, BT Vision.
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Digital Media: Digital topper to head new VOD joint venture -- Ashley Highfield, the BBC topper behind the successful launch of the pubcaster?s iPlayer, has been tapped as CEO of Kangaroo, the new on-demand service backed by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4.
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Digital Media: Channel targets young men -- The booming U.K. digital terrestrial platform Freeview is to get a version of best-selling men's magazine Nuts courtesy of Turner Broadcasting and IPC Magazines.
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Digital Media: Indie911 puts music documentary online -- Documentary "Before the Music Dies" will become the first feature to be distributed by Indie911 online via the Hookah, its new application that allows anyone to sell digital content on their own Web site.
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Digital Media: Digital media co. to program for Joost -- Latino-focused digital media company Voy has signed a deal to program six channels for Joost, the new online video company from the founders of Internet phone service Skype.
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Digital Media: Government plans to give cash to designer, developers -- Singapore is looking to take its nascent vidgame development biz to the next level. Aiming to establish the city-state as a global center for interactive digital media, the government plans to start giving cash to game designers and developers.
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Digital Media: Network getting into music business
-- The Eye is adding an ear. CBS will launch a digital record label in January, signing artists with the goal of breaking them via television show placement, iTunes and the Eye web's broadband channel.
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Digital Media: ACM Siggraph could hold confab on continent -- The industry association for computer graphics and interactive sectors is mulling expansion into Asia.
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Digital Media: Gay-oriented channel offered on subscription basis -- Here! network is now available on Verizon's FiOS all-digital network on a subscription basis. Owned by Paul Colichman, Here!'s gay-oriented pay-TV lineup is also available as a video-on-demand purchase.
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Digital Media: Conventioneers get peek of new film museum -- All conventions need a highlight, a talking point that keeps delegates gossiping and the rumor mill turning. Asian hardtop confab CineAsia's peak may have come Dec. 5 when conventioneers got a peek of the spectacular, but overdue, new China National Film Museum.
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Digital Media: Digimart warns H'wood to speed up digital progress -- Digital cinema is expanding its footprint, but it still risks being stepped on by that new gorilla on the block, Internet-based video.
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Digital Media: Content distribution takes center stage at Mipcom -- A dust-up over day-and-date availability of content on multiple platforms took center stage Tuesday at Mipcom, suggesting a ticklish balance between old media players and new-media platforms. On one side are indie producers such as 2929 Entertainment's Todd Wagner, who'd like to see Hollywood's current modus operandi thrown out the window.
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Digital Media: Rival hi-def formats try to establish themselves before time runs out -- Give HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc a little time, and one of these high-definition disc formats could conceivably catch on and outstrip DVD's record sales volumes.