http://www.cinemanow.com/About CinemaNow
CinemaNow, Inc. (www.cinemanow.com) is an innovator in digital entertainment technology, delivering high-quality Hollywood movies, TV shows and music videos to users across multiple platforms. Founded in 1999, CinemaNow has partnered with some of the biggest brands in consumer electronics and digital entertainment including ARCHOS, EchoStar Communications, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Samsung to deliver thousands of video titles directly to consumers. CinemaNow works with more than 250 licensors including 20th Century Fox, ABC News, Disney, HDNet, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, NBC Universal, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Sundance Channel and Warner Bros.
Products
Download-to-own: Hollywood movies, popular TV shows, and music videos are available for purchase, providing an unlimited viewing period on up to 3 devices. Download-to-own movies are priced from $9.99 to $19.99; TV shows and music videos are priced at $1.99.
Pay-Per-View: Hollywood movies are available for purchase, providing customers a 24 hour window to watch the video. As with all CinemaNow downloads, customers can start watching in minutes or download the file and watch it anytime, anywhere. Pay-Per-View movies are priced between $2.99 and $3.99.
Burn-to-DVD: Enables customers to legally download a DVD, play it back on PC and burn a copy to a blank DVD disc. The disc can then be played in virtually any DVD player with full remote control navigation and access to all of the special features. Burn-to-DVD movies are priced from $8.99 to $14.99.
Technology
CinemaNow has been at the technological forefront of digital video distribution since its launch in 1999. CinemaNow created PatchBay™, a proprietary content-on-demand distribution and digital rights management system that powers the CinemaNow Web site and its associated partner platforms. Over the years CinemaNow has been first in several historic milestones including:
First website to offer Pay-Per-View movies from major studios
First Download-to-Own service for feature films
First broadband distributor of high definition (HD) content
First distributor of Download-to-Own movies from Disney
First distributor of Burn-to-DVD movies from major studios
CinemaNow's digital entertainment technology powers video stores and content solutions for next generation consumer electronics products including the HP MediaSmart TV, ARCHOS 500 Series portable media players, EchoStar's Dish Network 622 set top box, and the Samsung P2 portable media player (PMP), and will soon appear in Sonic's Roxio Venue™ download application featured on millions of consumer PCs.
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Contact:
James Park
Edelman for CinemaNow
james.park@edelman.com