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NO HDTV OVER THE INTERNET, CUBAN PREDICTS Wednesday, November 29 2006 
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
(more)MARKETING DILEMMA: HOW TO PROMOTE A FILM CALLED F*** Wednesday, November 1 2006 
How
can
a
studio
promote
and
market
a
film
whose
title
is
the
F
word?
That
is
the
challenge
facing
ThinkFilm,
which
is
releasing
the
movie
in
New
York
and
Los
Angeles
on
Nov.
10
before
expanding
it.
Bloomberg
News
quoted
ThinkFilm's
marketing
chief,
Mark
Urman,
as
describing
his
quandary
this
way:
"Newspapers,
unless
they
are
alternative
weeklies,
cannot
print
the
word
...
and
movie
theaters
cannot
put
the
title
on
a
marquee."
Another
complication
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Buy a computer; get a free movie in high-definition -- that could be slogan for Dell Computer, which will bundle movies that have aired on Mark Cuban's HDNet on new Dell computers sold in the U.S. Under a deal announced Thursday, HDNet's Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission, produced last year, will be packaged with Dell's XPS M1710 computer. The computer is intended to be the center of a home entertainment system. In a statement, Cuban said, "Our combination of great programming, captured and displayed at only the highest quality, is a win-win opportunity for HDNet, Dell and consumers who want the very best high-definition home viewing experience."
