Digital TV News: CinemaNow

Sonic Solutions Selects Widevine for Video Optimization and DRM
Jun 8, 2009 – Widevine® and Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC) have announced that Widevine adaptive streaming, interactive DVD/Blu-ray features and DRM will help facilitate Roxio® CinemaNow® digital entertainment on broadband-enabled consumer electronics.
News categories: Widevine, Sonic Solutions, Blu-ray, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Gaming, Media Player, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet, USA

Sonic and LG Electronics Provide Instant Access to Hollywood Hits
Jun 5, 2009 – Consumers can now digitally stream movies from Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC) - including new releases from major Hollywood studios - on Blu-ray Disc players from LG Electronics (KSE: 066570.KS), the companies have announced.
News categories: Sonic Solutions, LG Electronics, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, USA

Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions Team for Internet Movie Delivery
Jan 14, 2009 – Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions have announced an alliance to give consumers access to a vast library of premium digital entertainment across a wide assortment of home (PC and consumer electronics) and mobile devices.
News categories: Blockbuster Inc, Sonic Solutions, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, Media Player, Mobile, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet

Intel Shows Broad Industry Support for Internet Experience to Your TV
Jan 8, 2009 – Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) showed broad industry support that brings a variety of rich Internet applications to the TV through new connected consumer electronics (CE) devices running on the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100.
News categories: Intel Corp, CES2024, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming

Sonic to Acquire CinemaNow
Nov 19, 2008 – Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC) has announced that it is to acquire CinemaNow. CinemaNow is at the forefront of digital video distribution, offering over 6,000 Hollywood movies, TV shows and music videos to users across multiple platforms.
News categories: CinemaNow, Sonic Solutions, DVD, DVR, MandA, Streaming, Tablet, USA

Winbox Technologies and CinemaNow Partner to Provide Premium VoD Services
Aug 29, 2008 – Winbox Technologies and CinemaNow have partnered to allow the delivery of CinemaNow content over broadband directly to televisions via OEM set-top boxes build on the Winbox technology platform.
News categories: CinemaNow, Winbox, Digital TV, IFABerlin, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

Intel® and Yahoo!® to Bring the Internet to Television
Aug 20, 2008 – Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) have previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture.
News categories: Intel Corp, Yahoo!, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV

CinemaNow Selects Widevine® to Enable Multiplatform Content Distribution to Consumer Electronics Devices and PCs
Aug 18, 2008 – Widevine Technologies has announced that it has been selected by CinemaNow to secure multiplatform distribution of CinemaNow content to major consumer electronics (CE) devices and PCs.
News categories: Widevine, CinemaNow, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Gaming, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet, USA

More Than One Billion Users Will View Online Video in 2013
May 27, 2008 – Sparked by increasing broadband penetration and rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world's population, over-the-top video has seen phenomenal growth in very recent years.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming