"The test...allows us to explore how consumers are using internet video on demand, " said David Bishop, president of MGM Home Entertainment Group.

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Yet despite the squalor, Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Mirage, Steve Wynn, Sheldon Adelson and a partnership of Park Place and Mandalay Resort Group are among the nine finalists angling to win one of three gambling licenses being granted by the Macau government.

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