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The WSJ has an article up about how Hollywood will be changing the way we watch movies.
Get ready for a lot more ways to catch a movie.
Hollywood studios and tech companies are rolling out a host of innovations that will change the way we experience films at home and in theaters. They’ve already begun to [...]

Smart move on YouTube’s part.
YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company.
For months, Google, YouTube’s parent company, has been talking to the major film companies about launching an ad-supported, streaming movie [...]

Not a bad start with the pricing but dump the DRM as it doesn’t help stop piracy anyway.
Warner Bros. plans to experiment with online movie rentals in China in an attempt to compete with pirates. The company has announced that it has partnered up with the Beijing-based Voole, which will offer DRM-protected copies of various [...]