Home Media Magazine - September 28 - October 4, 2008 - (Page 13) www.homemediamagazine.com ELECTRONIC DELIVERY BRIEFS I YAHOO OPENS WIDGETS Yahoo is allowing users to customize their personal pages with more widgets, including those from rival Web sites, including iTunes, Amazon. com and Netflix. Users can also check non-Yahoo e-mail. Additionally, Yahoo announced the formation of a digital advisory council to promote advertising on the site. The updates to Yahoo will roll out over the next few months. — Chris Tribbey Netflix Streams CBS, Disney Channel Content By Erik Gruenwedel etflix inked separate streaming deals for new and catalog content with CBS Television Network and Disney Channel programming from ABC Television Group. Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix, N which boasts a digital library of 12,000 titles, next month will begin offering free streams of episodes of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Numb3rs.” Episodes from “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: New York” and “NCIS” were available last week. Other CBS content available at Net- flix this fall includes episodes from the first two seasons of “Jericho” and classic TV programs “Star Trek,” “MacGyver” and “Family Ties.” The Disney Channel agreement includes original series “Hannah Montana,” with Miley Cyrus, as well as “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “The Suite Life on Deck,” a spin-off of “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Netflix members can watch free streams on a PC or TV via a set-top player by Roku. This fall it will also offer streams via Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console and LG Electronics’ BD300 Blu-ray Disc player. I CDSA: DIGITAL CONTENT MUST BE MOVEABLE The initial meeting of the Content Delivery and Storage Association’s (CDSA) Content Owners Advisory Board Sept. 16 resulted in agreement that consumers are easily frustrated when content doesn’t move easily between devices. Attendees agreed that allowing content to move freely between different media players is the industry’s biggest digital delivery challenge. The discussion drew representatives from major studios, software companies and industry analysts. The advisory board also voiced concerns regarding an accurate tally of digital download sales by online retailers. — Chris Tribbey I CODEBLACK GOES DIGITAL Codeblack Enterprises, distributor of urban theatrical and DVD content, has launched digital division Codeblack Interactive. Longtime Codeblack executive Quincy Newell heads the division. The interactive unit is making Codeblack content available to iTunes, Netflix, CinemaNow, YouTube and Xbox 360, in addition to mobile phone carriers Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, Boost Mobile and others. Vivendi Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment distribute Codeblack DVDs. — Erik Gruenwedel I T-MOBILE ALIGNS WITH GOOGLE TO RIVAL IPHONE Google and T-Mobile USA have teamed to deliver a phone that will feature Amazon.com’s digital music store, Wi-Fi connections and Google services such as Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. Available first in Europe later this year, the Nokia G1 is T-Mobile’s hopeful answer to Apple’s iPhone. Android, the name of the operating system for the G1, allows for third-party applications. The iPhone’s rejection of many third-party applications has been a bone of contention among some iPhone owners. Andy Rubin, Google director of mobile platforms, told the Reuters news service, “Because the platform is open, we think Android is somewhat futureproof.” — Chris Tribbey 13 http://www.homemediamagazine.com
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