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RATHER RETURNS Tuesday, November 14 2006 
Dan
Rather
says
he
intends
to
focus
on
investigative
reporting
as
he
launches
Dan
Rather
Reports
on
Mark
Cuban's
HDNet
tonight
(Tuesday).
In
an
interview
with
the
Baltimore
Sun,
Rather
said
that
such
reporting
"has
gone
badly
out
of
style"
because
of
the
cost,
time,
and
controversy
--
"and
these
huge
international
entities
that
now
control
about
85
percent
of
American
media
are
controversy-averse."
Not
so
the
entrepreneurial
maverick
Cuban
(owner
of
the
Dallas
Mavericks
(more)MORGAN FREEMAN'S MOVIE TO GO TO THEATERS AND WEB ON SAME DAY Tuesday, October 17 2006 
Actor-producer
Morgan
Freeman
will
be
joining
Mark
Cuban
in
offering
independent
films
on
DVD
and
for
downloading
online
at
about
the
same
time
they
open
in
theaters.
Freeman
has
announced
a
joint
venture
with
Intel
called
Clickstar
that
will
offer
his
low-budget
movie
10
Items
or
Less
beginning
Dec.
1,
the
same
day
it
premieres
theatrically.
Prices
have
not
yet
been
set.
The
website
is
also
planning
to
launch
a
free
"channel,"
hosted
by
Danny
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who owns the high-definition cable channel HDNet, predicted Tuesday that it will be many years before PC owners will be able to download high-definition movies from the Internet and play them on their TV sets. Writing on his blog, Cuban described an "issue that everyone seems to be missing" -- that there is no way for the average PC user to connect to an HDTV monitor. There are somewhat costly upgrades available, Cuban acknowledges, but how many people, he asks, will opt for such upgrades or PC replacements "rather than just leasing a box from the satellite, cable or telco provider?"
