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Movie kiosks & small rental stores grab Canadian market

60% of TV and movie rentals in Canada involve picking up a movie from a store, due to the content licensing difficulties in Canda. The main rental services now taking off in Canada are kiosks and smaller independent stores.

Netflix posts its first quarterly loss in 7 years

Netflix has lost $5 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared to a $60 million in net income over the same period in 2011, making this its first quarterly loss in seven years. This loss was most likely due to it losing 750,000 subscribers following its controversial price increase.

Surprise! Amazon Instant Video is now available on Sony’s PS3

Amazon has been pushing hard to expand their Instant Video service since it first launched. The company has added numerous shows and movies and nearly tripled the total library they launched with a year ago and made the service available on a number of TVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes. Now Amazon can officially add game consoles to their list of compatible devices by bringing the service to the PS3.

Sports reporter petitions court for access to his Megaupload files

The Megaupload drama involving what exactly is happening with user files keeps getting more and more interesting. One Megaupload user is tired of waiting for the courts to figure out what is going to happen with his files and is petitioning a Virginia court to get his files back.

Xfinity on Demand, HBO GO and MLB.tv hit Xbox Live

Xbox 360 owners with paid Xbox Live Gold accounts and existing subscriptions to Comcast’s Xfinity, HBO GO and MLB.tv can now access the trio’s programming directly through their consoles.

Microsoft has patented a system allowing consumers to pay to skip ads

Streaming video online is both convenient and either free or relatively inexpensive. The only issue are the annoying commercial breaks that most online services completely prevent you from skipping or fast forwarding through. Microsoft apparently has a solution to that problem and secured a patent for it.

Comcast won’t count its Xbox 360 video on demand service towards your data cap

Comcast is setting a very interesting precedent when it comes to what will and won’t count towards your monthly data cap. The company is getting their Xbox 360 video streaming app ready for wider release and with that comes the ruling that any videos streaming through that app will not count towards customers monthly data cap.

Netflix adds Retina display support, new ToU to iPad app

Netflix wasted no time getting behind Apple’s latest hit tablet the new iPad, updating its iOS app this week to add support for the device’s ultra-HD Retina display.

U.S. online movies to top physical media in 2012

According to market researcher IHS, legally downloaded movies will outperform disc-based movies for the first time ever in 2012. The group believes online movies transactions will more than double this year, hitting 3.4 billion. Purchases of Blu-ray and DVD movies will fall for the second straight year to 2.4 billion, with a slow descent expected over the next five years.

Netflix sheds light on its new original horror show, ‘Hemlock Grove’

Continuing a bid to compete with major television networks, Netflix has recruited some big names to create “Hemlock Grove,” a series set to debut exclusively through the company’s instant streaming service next year. The show, adapted from a novel of the same name by Brian McGreevy, will be directed by horror movie mastermind Eli Roth and star Famke Janssen and Bill Skarsgard.

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Diablo 3 game fans hit with always-online DRM grief (4)

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  • Mon 21 May 22:48 by Seán
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