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NEW LINE CINEMAS GONE BLU TOO

NEW LINE CINEMAS HAS DECIDED TO BITE THE BLU BULLET AND GO BLU

HERE IS THE ARTICLE FROM ENGADGETHD.COM

As if anyone expected anything different, New Line confirmed with Variety Magazine that it'll follow Warner to the Blu-ray promise land. While this is a no brainer considering the relationship between Warner and New Line, (also owned by Time Warner, just like Engadget) other studios remain up in the air. When, and if, Universal makes the switch as well is any ones guess, but at this point we doubt many would expect otherwise. But, as we've learned in the last few days, anything's possible, but the idea of having one HD format to adopt is something even most members of the red camp can get behind.

COMCAST LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FANCAST

COMCAST HAS LAUNCHED NEW WEBSITE FANCAST.COM ARTICLE IS FROM WIRED.COM

Cable giant Comcast on Tuesday plans to unveil Fancast, a TV-and-movie search site that the company hopes will become one of the Web's top entertainment destinations.

After a year of development and six months in beta, the site still isn't all there yet -- but it's already far enough along to become the electronic programming guide that TVGuide.com only wishes it could be.

"The problem is that people don't know how to get their hands on something," says Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media. "We thought, let's give consumers a one-stop shop."

Fancast is one of several announcements Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is expected to make at Tuesday morning's CES keynote address -- the first by a cable exec. He'll also tout a dramatic expansion of Comcast's video-on-demand lineup and a portable DVR developed in partnership with Panasonic.

The AnyPlay DVR -- announced by Panasonic on Monday, but not available until early 2009 -- is designed to slide out of a docking station on the set-top box and has a pop-up screen, so you can watch it in a plane or a car. It will double as a DVD player, so you'll also be able to watch movies and TV shows you can't find on television.

With Fancast itself, if something is on TV at all, you should be able to find it. If it's in movie theaters or on DVD or available from iTunes, Netflix, Amazon or Web-video sites like Hulu, you can find it too.

Key to the site was Comcast's purchase last year of Fandango, the movie-ticketing site best known for its incredibly annoying sock puppets. News of the deal was greeted with snorts of derision: Would the move pan out, or was it, as blog baron Nick Denton predicted on ValleyWag, "a classic boom-time blunder by an aging corporation eager for the internet limelight"? Given the cable industry's dismal track record on innovation, the smart money was with Denton.

Yet Fancast turns out to be surprisingly well-designed -- and useful enough that the biggest complaint is likely to be, what took so long?

Like IMDB and other sites, it can be searched by title, actor, director and any number of other keywords. But it also takes a crucial next step, leading you directly to what you're looking for.

Take television. You don't have to be a Comcast customer to find a show on your TV lineup. Type in your ZIP code and check off your cable or satellite provider, and Fancast tells you not only what time it's on but whether it's on channel 43 or channel 403.

Other links take you directly to iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and Blockbuster. If you're looking for a film that's still in theaters, Fancast hands you off to Fandango, which provides local times and theater locations, and in many cases a link to buy tickets online.

Fancast is also supposed to play full-screen video from Hulu, CBS.com and -- Roberts announces today -- Viacom networks like MTV and Comedy Central. Unfortunately, this feature is still pretty buggy: On a Mac running Safari, for example, Fancast plays CBS videos but not Hulu's. Tech support is said to be on the case.

Within a few months, Comcast and TiVo customers should be able to click a button on the site and automatically record a show on their DVRs. Banse says Comcast is talking with other cable providers about doing this for their subscribers as well.

Also in the works are "community" features like consumer reviews and sharing recommendations with friends, plus the ability to program your DVR from a mobile phone -- something you can already do in more-advanced countries like Great Britain. "We have another 12 months of work ahead of us," Banse says.

Until then, users will just have to content themselves with the Six° button, which -- you guessed it -- provides links to just about every movie, television show, actor, writer and director anyone has ever been involved with. Kevin Bacon, eat your heart out.

COMCAST NEW PROJECT INFINITY CES 2008 NEWS

HERE IS AN ARTICLE FROM BETANEWS.COM ABOUT THE NEW PROJECT FROM COMCAST CALLED INFINITY

Scott Fulton, BetaNews: During his keynote address later this morning at CES 2008, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is slated to introduce a venerable onslaught of brands to the public at large, at least one of which could have a significant and perhaps historic impact on cable television service.

For now, the big announcement is being referred to as "Project Infinity," and it involves nothing short of the deprogramming of the programs it offers from all its content providers.

Comcast corporate statement Tuesday morning: Project Infinity envisions ever-increasing customer choice that continues the evolution of time-shifted viewing that began with the huge success of Comcast On Demand. Comcast's vision is to give customers exponentially more content choices -- all available to consumers at the click of the remote without having to buy any additional equipment.

Scott Fulton: Conceivably, the service could involve a kind of DV-R on the server side, effectively pre-recording all its shows at the source and delivering them over IPTV connections to digital cable subscribers on their own schedules. It could be a simpler service than you think, since Comcast would only need to store a few cached recordings, which could be far more efficient than distributing millions of DVRs just so millions of viewers can record programs on the receiving end.

And with a local hard drive not being necessary, the cost of service subscription may reflect that one less item.

Likely to be featured as part of this service is a new Comcast brand called Fancast. Subscribers will be able to tune-in on demand to recorded content that viewers have missed, and may do so not necessarily through their TVs. Replayed shows will also be made available through the Web.

Comcast corporate statement Tuesday morning: Need to decide what to watch tonight? On Fancast users can search for video content and entertainment information they're looking for on over 11 million web pages including information on more than 50,000 television shows, 80,000 movies and 1.2 million people combining multiple sources of entertainment information.

So yes, there's a social aspect of it as well. More from Brian Roberts' keynote at CES later in the day.

UNIVERSAL SAYS THEY ARE STAYING RED FOR RIGHT NOW

ACCORDING TO BETANEWS.COM UNIVERSAL IS STAYING WITH HD-DVD FOR NOW.

HERE IS THE FULL ARTICLE FROM BETANEWS.COM:

5:00 pm ET January 10, 2008 -- Universal Studios has officially dispelled the rumors from Variety that it will drop HD DVD and switch to Blu-ray.

"Contrary to unsubstantiated rumors from unnamed sources, Universal's current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format," said Ken Graffeo, executive vice president of HD strategic marketing for Universal Studios Home Entertainment and also co-president of the HD DVD Promotional Group.

The response would have come sooner, but many HD DVD executives were on flights home from CES when the story from Variety broke.

2:00 pm ET January 10, 2008 -- The HD DVD Promotional Group is expected to release a statement this afternoon refuting claims that Universal is jumping ship to Blu-ray.

While it's not clear what the statement will say, HD DVD indicated at CES that it still had full support from Paramount and Universal -- the last two major Hollywood studios to be backing the format exclusively.

However, without actual exclusive contracts in place, Universal could still decide to switch allegiances in the future.

It's not clear what led to the Variety claims, but they follow similar rumors reported by the Financial Times -- and later disputed by the studio -- that Paramount would go Blu-ray only.

Sources close to the matter say that neither Variety or the Financial Times bothered to contact HD DVD for confirmation before publishing the rumors.

Posted at 9:23am ET:

The entertainment industry publication Daily Variety is reporting this morning that Universal -- the only HD DVD stalwart we haven't talked that much about during CES week -- is preparing to gracefully back out of its commitment to that format.

The studio would first fulfill its remaining promotional commitments to HD DVD, which is what Warner Bros. has also committed to do through May. Variety also confirmed what had been stated as rumor yesterday that Paramount, the other HD DVD backer, does have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD Promotions Group to back out should Warner Bros. also back out.

BetaNews is on the floor of the final day of CES throughout the day, and will gauge reaction to this news.

BLU-RAY WINNING THE FORMAT WAR AGAINST HD-DVD WITH THE ADDITION OF WARNER BROTHERS

ACCORDING TO WARNER BROTHERS THEY DECIDED TO GO BLU

Just two days before Bill Gates' Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Microsoft's chosen next-generation video format suffered a major setback. Late Friday, movie and television studio Warner Bros. announced that it is discontinuing its support of the HD DVD format, and will release its high-definition home-video offerings solely on Blu-ray Disc beginning this coming May. Currently, the company, which controls nearly 18 to 20 percent of the US home-video market, supports both Blu-ray and HD DVD.

"Warner Bros.' move to exclusively release in the Blu-ray Disc format is a strategic decision focused on the long term," said Barry Meyer, Warner Bros.' chairman and CEO, in a statement. "The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass-market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers."

Warner Bros. joins a host of other movie studios--including the Walt Disney Company, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate--who are backing the Blu-ray format. More importantly for gamers, Blu-ray was created by Sony, which has included an internal Blu-ray Disc drive as part of all four PlayStation 3 models released since November 2006. Besides movie studios Universal and Paramount, HD DVD is backed by Microsoft, which released an external HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 in November 2006. It recently denied rumors that it is working on a version of the Xbox 360 that would have an internal HD DVD drive.

Toshiba, which led development of HD DVD at the same time it was partnering with Sony to create the PS3's cell processor, was openly shocked by today's events. "Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.' decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray, despite the fact that there are various contracts in place between our companies concerning the support of HD DVD," the company said in a terse statement. "We were particularly disappointed that this decision was made in spite of the significant momentum HD DVD has gained in the US market as well as other regions in 2007. HD DVD players and PCs have outsold Blu-ray in the US market in 2007."