A federal court in Illinois has ordered a man to pay $1.5m in damages - the largest award of its kind - after evidence proved that he had illegally shared ten adult movies via BitTorrent. More...
Fox is testing the digital distribution waters yet again, this time seeing how releases on UltraViolet would fare before releases on disc formats and on-demand video sources. More...
Netflix has opened a small experiment for crowd-sourcing subtitles, in order to assess the possibility of making this their new standard. The experiment will be focusing on a small number of users. More...
Irwin Tieng, a prominent Filipino politician, has put forth the possibility of a bill echoing SOPA, which was rejected earlier this year after major internet protesting. More...
Martin Scorsese has appeared in an advert promoting Apple's Siri voice assistant software, with the famed director appearing in his natural environment of New York. More...
Google has announced during the Google I/O that it has added new content to its Android-based Google Play online store, including movie purchases, TV shows and magazines. More...
A new report claims that people will watch more movies via the Internet than they will on DVD and Blu-Ray disks for the first time in 2012, although revenues from Internet movies will still be lower. More...
Apple is reportedly making plans to offer streaming feature films as part of its just launched iCloud service. Movies could be added later in 2011 or sometime in 2012. More...
A new report says that Facebook is looking to hire a new executive to help the social networking site improve its relationships with the movie and music industries. More...
Blockbuster made the tough announcement early today that they will begin to liquidate and close all remaining locations starting tomorrow at 10am. More...
Today YouTube launched their online movie rental service across Canada, including all the latest local hits and even Hollywood blockbusters like Harry Potter and Hobo with a Shotgun. More...
Google's major content and feature update for its Android Market app has apparently started to be made available for people who own Android-based smartphone and devices. Engadget is reporting that it has received word from... More...
Google has just unveiled a major overhaul to the Android Market for mobile phones running Android 2.2 or higher. The updated market place will allow users to rent thousands of movies and download the latest... More...
So we here at Neowin enjoy watching films, whether it’s heading to the cinema or catching something on DVD or BluRay. However there are those times that we think “now that film was terrible, why... More...
YouTube let the world know that they’ve entered movie-rental business with a simple tweet: "Say hello to my little friend!" http://youtube.com/movies #ytmovies. A wide range of movies are already available at YouTube Movies, including titles... More...
When Kinect was first announced, one of the exciting features that was shown was the ability to control the Xbox without the need for a controller. Streaming ESPN3 through the dashboard, and being able to... More...
There are a bunch of great iPhone apps in Apple's app store. Many of them are free and can make you more organized, productive and accountable. The following list showcases our pick of ten popular... More...
Hollywood giant Warner Bros is keen to get a shoe in on its competition in digital delivery of its content by being the first movie studio to a rent a movie on Facebook. The studio... More...
YouTube is planning to launch an unlimited subscription service for movies similar to Netflix and Amazon, and is also considering starting it the UK to cut down on the competition, reports The New York Post.
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3D technology has changed drastically over the past few years, gone are the cheap green and red cardboard glasses from yesteryear and in come high-end 3D TV’s, far more expensive designer glasses and stereoscopic HD... More...
3D movies in theaters should be an effective countermeasure to piracy, right? I mean, who would want to watch a movie with bad telesync-ed sound and visual oddities caused by watching a 3D film on... More...
Late last year, reports surfaced of a suspected YouTube movie rental service. Fast forward to 2010 and indeed YouTube has started streaming a selection of movies. YouTube has been in talks with major Hollywood movie... More...
This year at CES, the big show for many television manufacturers was 3D technology, which many believed to be the next big thing since HDTV, while others disagreed and said the technology was only a... More...
Netflix announced today that they will be expanding their online streaming movie and TV service to Canada.
The company confirmed it will only be expanding to Canada, but it's an expansion nevertheless. However, Canadian customers will... More...
Bing has released a big update for Windows 6.x phones, adding a new home page, Movies and Traffic. The new app changes gives users faster access to common search, including the navigation of the... More...
News.com.au and CoreData conducted a survey about illegal downloads, the survey got over 7000 responses and found that the majority of people would pay for things they download illegally if it was made available for... More...
Netflix will soon be available on the AppStore for iPad owners, according to Appadvice. The application will be available for free on April 3, and able to stream TV shows and movies right onto the... More...
Today the popular movie organizer for Windows has been updated. All My Movies lets you easily import movie details from the online movie databases, so you don't need to type all the detauils... More...
Bolide Software announced today a new version of All My Movies, a popular movie collection organizer program. New to this version is a radically redesigned interface, which shows the database of movies on photorealistic shelves.... More...
All My Movies is a popular movie collection organizer solution with ability to import movie data automatically from many online sources. The program works on almost every MS Windows PC, including MS Windows Vista. Today... More...
In this current age of streaming video there is just about anything you can watch on the internet ranging from TV Shows on BBC iplayer to Films on Hulu but one service that seems to... More...
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding... More...
Ubisoft has released a new Far Cry 2 movie which gives an overview of the game's features. There's some gameplay as well as some words from the developers themselves. Check out the interesting and action... More...
Apple is expected to announce Thursday that it has struck a deal with a wide array of major and mini studios to offer many new releases for purchase at its iTunes Store. The move would... More...
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sued Pullmylink.com, a website featuring links to free - and allegedly pirated - movies and TV shows, claiming the site promotes and profits from copyright infringement. The... More...
The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn't been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as... More...
Toshiba’s Digital Product Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Incorporated, has lowered the starting price on its HD DVD notebook line to $899 (starting with the Satellite A205 notebook). In addition to the... More...
If the rumour isn't just a rumour, Wal-mart has just proven it isn't backing HD DVD whatsoever. Here is some information about one of the 4 planned "Secret Sales" for the holiday season. A supposed... More...
Between July 1 and September 30, the Blu-ray Disc Association will offer five free movies to new U.S. owners of Blu-ray Disc players (from any company). The deal applies to the PlayStation 3 as well,... More...
To combat movie piracy in the Asian Pacific countries, Warner Bros. announced plans to launch a new movie download service dubbed 08Media in Hong Kong. ViDeOnline Communications will offer the service initially with 100 titles... More...
A growing number of blockbuster, live-action films and animated movies are expected to be offered in 3-D in the next few years, as thousands of theatres around the country are outfitted with the special projectors... More...
Another video game series is being eyed for a film adaptation franchise, this time the Prince of Persia games from Ubisoft. The game has taken off in recent years with at least 3 recent sequels... More...
Thanks to Hum for posting this in BPN. Amazon.com announced that in early 2007 it plans to offer digital downloads of DVDs via its current service dubbed Unbox. Amazon's CustomFlix subsidiary produces licensed DVDs only... More...
Channel 4's once subscriber-only film channel FilmFour is becoming Freeview's first truly free movies channel as it launches tonight (Sunday) at 9pm with the film Lost in Translation. As reported in February the move is... More...
In an attempt to regain a fading market for pre-recorded movies for its PlayStation Portable system, Sony is testing the sale of movies on Memory Stick pro Duos. Sony has recently announced that it will... More...
Nvidia has unveiled its PureVideo HD technology which delivers HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie playback on PCs. PureVideo HD combines hardware acceleration from an Nvidia graphics processing unit, high-definition movie player integration and HDCP support to... More...
Suited up and ready for action, Activision, Inc. and Lionhead® Studios today announced The Movies: Stunts & Effects, the expansion pack to the 9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards' "Simulation Game of the Year." Building on... More...
Channel 4 are continuing the UK's digital free-to-air revolution by providing their subscriber service, FilmFour, free of charge. Bosses have decided to enable anyone with a digital... More...
The movie giants have announced a service called In2Movies, which will distribute movies via peer to peer technology not too dissimilar to the methods used by illegal file sharers. ... More...
The Movies website offers news that Lionhead Studio's movie making game has gone gold. No release date has been given, but it appears the game will make the stated "Fall 2005" release date. ... More...