Sony Pictures Television International and Warner Bros. have signed up as launch partners for UK supermarket Tesco’s plan to offer digital downloads of film and TV content through its own online service.
Hollywood Reporter claims titles on offer will include ‘Superman 3′, and ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ through the service.
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Radio shows from 62 US stations are now available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners running the Radiolicious application following a landmark deal between developers, MySimBook and US radio network, Regent Communications.
Regent owns and operates 62 stations (50 FM and 12 AM) clustered in 13 markets in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Texas.
Now Regent’s 57 existing internet radio station streams will be made available through Radiolicious. Regent is the first major radio group to contract for all of its streaming stations to be available through the application.
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Apple’s iTunes Store has introduced a range of limited-time discount price offers in the US and UK, with different offers in each territory.
US iTunes users are being offered a bargain basement of film releases sold at under $5. The selection of films on offer change on a weekly basis and currently includes ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’, ‘Total Recall’ and ‘Karate Kid’, among others.
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A crucial stage of the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting has been reached, with the first stage of digital TV switchover completed in the Scottish Borders, Digital UK has confirmed.
Analogue BBC Two has been permanently turned off, and the full range of BBC channels is now being broadcast in digital from every TV transmitter in the region.
The remaining analogue TV services (BBC One, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five) will be permanently turned off in the region when the switchover process is completed on 20 November.
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HBO Sports is offering a series of short boxing films called ‘Ring Life’, which will be made available for free through iTunes and across HBO’s digital media platforms including HBO.com, HBO Mobile, HBO’s YouTube Channel from November 10.
The series is inspired by the lives of eight hopeful boxers with dreams of becoming champions, explaining how they juggle real life with the pursuit of their boxing dreams.
“With so much at stake and tremendous pressure building within each of the 24 segments, watching these boxers go through hardships is enough to hook any viewer,” said Rick Bernstein, executive producer, HBO Sports.
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Virgin Media and BSkyB have ended their conflict, reaching an accord which will cause Virgin’s channels to stay on BSkyB and channels from the latter broadcaster return to Virgin.
The first agreement will see the return, on 13 November, of Sky’s Basic channels – including Sky1, Sky2, Sky3, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Real Lives and Sky Real Lives 2 – to Virgin Media’s cable TV service.
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BBC Worldwide has finally reached a deal which brings its rich trove of content to iTunes users in France, with shows from the broadcaster now made available through the French version of the media store.
This follows a similar move this time last month, when shows from the BBC were made available for purchase through the German version of the store.
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MTV has agreed a deal that will let its videos be uploaded and made available through the MySpace social network in the US.
The partners will enable advertising opportunities within audience-uploaded videos across MySpace, with tech firm Auditude providing technology for advertising to be inserted across a suite of MTV Networks’ most popular video content uploaded to MySpace, including clips from MTV and Comedy Central, among others.
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In related news, a note on the BBC blog reveals significant progress bringing TV and radio show downloads on demand to the Linux platform. (BTW - anyone notice that this is embedded iPlayer content…)
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Tivo and Netflix have joined forces in another stab at keeping the Apple TV and iTunes out of the digital den.
The companies will give subscribers to both services the chance to stream thousands of movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to the TV using TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and HD XL digital video recorders.
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