RECENT MOVIES IN HI DEF COMING TO CABLE -- AT A PRICE

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	MANY HDTV SET OWNERS CAN'T WATCH HDTV, SAYS STUDY Jan 20 2006
	Nearly half the owners of HDTV sets are unable to receive programs in high-definition because (more)
	TITLES ANNOUNCED FOR FIRST MOVIES RELEASED IN HI-DEF FORMAT Jan 4 2006
	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Tuesday announced the first 20 titles that it will release (more)
	SONY FILMS TO USE OLD TECHNOLOGY FOR HI-DEF DVD'S Dec 1 2005
	Online techies were expressing surprise Wednesday at Sony's announcement that it will release its first (more)

RECENT MOVIES IN HI DEF COMING TO CABLE -- AT A PRICE
Wednesday, March 1 2006

Twentieth Century Fox is willing to make its movies available in high definition over cable and satellite within 60 days after they are released in theaters for $25-$30 per view, News Corp President and CEO Peter Chernin told a Bear Stearns media conference in Palm Beach, FL Tuesday. Asked about such a seemingly stiff price, Chernin observed that some 1 million Americans purchased home theater systems worth $25,000 each last year and that such users would be "desperate" for high-definition fare. (He did not cite a source for that figure.)

DISNEY TO RELAUNCH ON-DEMAND MOVIE SERVICE
Tuesday, February 14 2006
Hoping to put what amounts to a virtual Blockbuster store next to the TV sets of American consumers, the Walt Disney Co. said Monday that it plans to revive MovieBeam, the on-demand movie service that it suspended last year after a two-year trial. The MovieBeam service allows 100 movies to be delivered to and stored on a settop box. Each week the box is updated. The movies are beamed to the box piggy-backed on conventional (more)

SONY ANNOUNCES PRICES FOR HIGH-DEFINITION DISCS
Wednesday, February 8 2006
Sony Pictures announced pricing on Tuesday for upcoming home-video releases on high-definition Blu-ray discs. Older "catalog" movie titles, it said, will wholesale for $17.95; newer releases, for $23.45, about 15 percent more than conventional DVDs. Sony said it would not suggest any retail prices for the titles. Meanwhile, Home Media Retailing magazine on Tuesday quoted Disney CEO Robert Iger as saying that he was "bullish" on high-definition DVDs. "I realize it's going to go through (more)