Best Buy-CinemaNow announcement leaves more questions than answers

Nov 5, 2009 by Phil Lozen

Best Buy and CinemaNow announced a wide-reaching partnership this week, but so far there's more questions than answers about how the service will work and just how wide the reach will be.

Roxio to Offer Access to Personal Content on Connected Devices

Oct 8, 2009 by Adam Thursby

It seems that every company on the planet that has anything to do with Hollywood or even Indie produced movies is looking to let people watch everything they could think of on the TV. Sonic Solutions, parent company of Roxio and CinemaNow are the latest to jump in. I’m not sure about you but...

Sonic and Widevine to Deliver Movies via USB Flash Drives

Jul 23, 2009 by Adam Thursby

Sonic, parent company of CinemaNow, just keeps popping up in the news. The company has now partnered with Widevine to provide Hollywood movies via flash media drives. The self-contained CinemaNow USB Movie Drives(TM) will include an integrated media player as well as the necessary video codecs...

Sonic Preparing to Stream 3D Movies Right Into Your Home-No Glasses Re...

Jul 21, 2009 by Adam Thursby

Sonic, the parent company of Roxio and the CinemaNow streaming service today announced that they are providing the tools necessary to provide a full 3D experience in the home. The company is teaming with Nvidia to optimize content from CinemaNow for playback on GeForce GPUs and to provide...

LG Adds CinemaNow Access to Line of Blu-Ray Players

Jun 6, 2009 by Adam Thursby

Consumers can now digitally stream movies from CinemaNow on Blu-ray Disc players from LG Electronics, the companies announced yesterday. Previewed at the CES in January, the LG Network Blu-ray Disc Players (models BD370 and BD390) and LG Network Home Theater Systems (models LHB953 and...

LG Turns Net Connectivity Up a Notch

Jun 1, 2009 by Adam Thursby

It’s starting to seem like my 4 port router and 8 port switch won’t be enough to connect all of the devices hitting the market this year. Between Yahoo Widget TVs, PCs, servers, and blu-ray players, we’ll have to install rack mounted hardware soon. LG is doing everything it can to make...

How Not to Let People Copy DVDs

May 21, 2009 by Adam Thursby

Qflix was introduced at CES earlier this year. When a feed item crossed my PC this morning, it looked interesting. QFlix DVD players allow you to download movies from CinamaNow and burn them to disk. These are now being offered as options in certain Dell PCs for $20. As I started to read...