Digital movie cards are one of many ways VUDU is introducing Walmart customers to digital content.
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Microsoft is even offering digital movie rentals on its XBox 360 game console.
In 2004 I directed my first digital movie called Death Clique, all shot using a Panasonic DVX100 camera.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is even offering digital movie rentals on its XBox 360 game console.
Speaking of which, Paramount Pictures has the newly remastered Raiders film playing on 300 IMAX and digital movie theaters for a limited time.
The refreshed site is available as an open beta starting today that focuses on making it the center of your digital movie watching.
She rejected suggestions that mobile phone films were merely a gimmick, pointing out that digital movie cameras were at first scorned by serious film-makers but have now been widely accepted.
The intent being, the logo assures consumers that if they purchased a digital movie from an authorized () online retailer, it would play on any device that also supported the program.
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It's now easy to add still photos to a digital movie, as well as a musical soundtrack from the iTunes playlist, then to burn it to a DVD, complete with chapters, and a fancy introduction screen using iDVD.
Finished with that digital movie?
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One of the biggest barriers to success for the studios in the digital age has been the lack of a digital ecosystem that provides a consumer value proposition worthy enough for consumers to fork over their hard earned cash to own a digital movie.
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And this from a man who runs a company that licenses a digital movie distribution service to at least 20 companies, including retailers like Best Buy and Sears, PC makers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard, TV makers like Vizio and a number of film studios.
Movie studios want consumers to buy more digital-movie downloads as DVD sales shrink and digital rental and subscription services, from which studios earn less, gain traction.
With iTunes commanding the majority of the digital-movie download market, the studios have made a bid to control their own fates by developing a competing cloud service called UltraViolet.
Manufacturers and retailers want to speed the mass adoption of Blu-ray before digital-movie downloads and video on demand overtake movie disc sales and rentals -- a looming development that already may be damping sales.
As entertainment goes digital, the movie biz finds itself smack in the middle of the Silicon Valley versus Hollywood wars and the whole convergence confusion.
Digital Cinema, a deal with Technicolor to replace movie reels with digital transmission, shut down.
Since there are so few digital cinemas--even theaters showing Episode II in digital have been loaned the equipment--the movie must to transferred from digital to plain old film.
There is little here that would not have crossed the minds of sci-fi enthusiasts in the nineteen-fifties, and, for all its digital novelty, the movie has the distinct air of a throwback.
Depending on how much you pledge, you can get one of a dozen different thank you gifts including a digital copy of the movie, DVDs, t-shirts, books, original artwork, and even a producer credit on the film.
What I should be doing, of course, is buying a digital copy of the movie or bringing the DVD that I paid for with me to play on a portable player or laptop, both of which sound not so fun.
Vudu is available on thousands of devices (including TVs and PlayStation consoles) and it can work with Wal-Mart to do things like offering a free digital copy of a movie like Toy Story 3 with every purchase of the physical DVD.
It's a play to fuel demand for digital projection, aimed at breaking an industry standstill over how and when movie theaters will convert to digital projectors.
There are also videos created by digital cameras with a "movie mode" feature.
And, you know, this movie deals with the issues of where the line between digital and reality starts to blur, and the movie actually becomes animated halfway through, very saturated bright colors, but a very dark sort of undertone.
The annual summer movie onslaught will only build upon previous releases heavy on digital enhancements, such as Lord of the Rings and Pearl Harbor, while the latest Star Wars release, which hits screens at midnight, is nudging the entire film industry toward taking traditional film out of the movie-making process entirely and replacing it with digital formats.
Instead, he discovered an "elaborate, gorgeous" movie filled with impressive digital effects.
Ever since videos became DVDs and digital downloads brought in-home movie delivery to many consumers, the rental business has been a challenging retail niche.
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