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Redbox and Warner Bros. go their separate ways

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Warner Bros. could not convince Redbox to go along with its plan that delays rentals of its films by 56 days. In addition to that, the deal that required Redbox customers to wait 28 days before renting Warner Bros. films after they are released on DVD has expired. This means Redbox can offer new Warner Bros. movies more »

Warner Bros. doesn’t want you adding its new movies to your Netflix queue

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Warner Bros. has been making some unpopular decisions lately. Besides locking all the Harry Potter films away in a vault, Warner also recently struck a deal with Netflix, Redbox and Blockbuster that forces their customers to wait 56 days before renting one of Warner Bros’. new releases. The fun doesn’t stop there though. Warner Bros. more »

Warner Bros. adds five more movies to Facebook rental service

The recent launch of Warner Brothers’ movie rental service via Facebook fan pages must have been pretty successful prompting the studio to offer five more movies under the said rental scheme. So, joining “The Dark Knight” are five more films – “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Inception,” more »

YouTube in talks wiith studios to offer movie rentals

YouTube is attempting to build upon its popularity by offering full length features on a rental basis. The company has been in talks with several movie studios about potential ways to make this possible. Their biggest hurdle is attempting to get users to pay for premium content when free content is readily available on sites more »

Watch the Watchmen with your Facebook friends

Before the release of J.J. Abram’s massive success in “Star Trek,” “Watchmen” was the geek movie event of the year. The amount of attention it got from geeks across the country couldn’t go ignored by Warner Bros., which decided to add a bit of extra functionality to the Blu-Ray release of Watchmen. The Blu-ray Director’s more »

Target Speed Racer gift card with USB 2.0 Flash drive built in

Our sister site Gamertell has spotted an interesting freebie at Target retail stores. The chain is putting out a Speed Racer-themed gift card that comes with a 60+ MB USB 2.0 Flash drive built right in. It is one of those gift cards you fill with money to give to someone else, so it’s essentially more »

Is the HD-DVD format really doomed now?

This may be the definite death of the HD DVD format. Financial Times is reporting that Paramount may switch over to Blu-ray thanks to a clause in their contract with HD DVD that states that they will be able to make this move if and when Warner Bros. goes exclusively with Blu-ray, which is now more »

Is this the end of the HD format war?

It has been rumored for the last couple of weeks but now its official: Warner Bros., the only movie studio that until now was releasing movies in both formats, has decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray, starting in May of this year. This means that the score is now 6 for Blu-ray (Sony, MGM, Disney, more »