YouTube seals deals with major studios to compete with iTunes
Google-owned YouTube plans to expand the premium on-demand video rental services offered through its website.
Earlier this week, Google and YouTube reportedly closed deals with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Universal and Lionsgate to offer filmed content from these studios as streaming rentals -- including access to new releases the same day as competing movie-on-demand services. YouTube's new service is expected to compete with market leaders in the online video rental market: Apple and Amazon.
In an effort to generate revenue with professionally produced content, YouTube began offering premium video rentals on its website about a year ago, starting with a limited number of films from the Sundance Film Festival, Weinstein Co. and MGM. But the Google subsidiary has struggled to transform its 130 million monthly users into a sizable audience for its paid and ad-supported feature films. This week's licensing agreements that expand YouTube's library of rental titles may help more customers see value in paying the website for access to Hollywood films and make it a more competitive rival to Apple's iTunes and Amazon's Instant Video services.
Google isn't the only big brand making big moves in the streaming video business. According to The Hollywood Reporter, both DirecTV and Dish Network are exploring subscription streaming service businesses to challenge Netflix and iTunes. Meanwhile, cable television provider Comcast is trying to negotiate deals to offer premium video-on-demand options that would allow cable subscribers to enjoy new movies only 6–8 weeks after their theatrical release dates.
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Tsunami and earthquake alert in the world
Christianity means love with affection, charity(Zakkath) to poor and forgiveness others are basic structures of Christianity
If my Google, Yahoo, Alexa, Compete, Majon are desires to protect all over the world under the internet services to avoid tsunami and earthquake, floods and famine and it may be published /Advertise the following messages to all its customer services and internet services in the world. No scientists have protected and safeguarded Japan which was affected by tsunami and earthquake damages since 11.03.2011.we have aslo posted messages of prayers in the youtube video as public unity and peace in the world.
After Japan , God is decided to destroy the populations of all Islamic countries that the Islamaic Rulers and the public of all Islamic countries are not following the Holy Quranic verses posted in the website http://www.goldenduas.com which was sent to them as per the Quranic Verses 17:16 and 28:59. Besides, God is divided various groups of Christians, jewish, Hindus and Islam to fight and enemity with each others till on a Day of Ressurrection on the research that they are not following important messages send by god which are posted in the above website as required under Holy Quranic verses 5:14, 8:73 and 9:31(Quranic verses in English are available in www.quran.com).Unless faith posted in the website are followed by all communities in the world, other wise all the governments in the world and any other sources canât safe the life and liberty of all mankinds and animals in the world from all kind of natural calamities.
Most of the States/Cities of each and every countries are situated in and around hills/mountains/rivers /coastal areas which are all very high damaged risk zones on the same should be only protected by faith.
Kindly send the message as frequent alert to all over the world in the interest of public safety and oblidge.
With Kind Regards,
Ibrahimali
It's going to be really interesting to see how Google is going to explain how they will offer all this on-demand video content will all only be delivered as H264 video, and not in the crappy 'open' codec they are trying to force on us for web video.
Knowing that WebM sucks for 720p video and upwards, knowing that the content industry will require at least the same amount of DRM that they use on all their other current delivery methods (all H264 based) and last but not least, knowing the content industry will want to guarantee the content can be played back by current hardware implementations (not hypothetical WebM-based ones that migh be years away), it's going to be a pretty safe bet that all this on-demand content will be piped through Flash as H264 video.
So much for (supposedly) trying to 'free the world' of the evil proprietary codec called H264, right? Google? I guess all this hot air about open and free video codecs is suddenly irrelevant when real business and real money are involved.
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