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 Section: Business News, Video, Video Providers At the beginning of April, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures agreed to launch a premium video on demand service called Home Premiere. Home Premiere will provide access to movies two months after they’ve arrived in theaters. The cost to rent each movie will be $30 for a period of two to three days. Some theaters aren’t too happy about this service because it could possibly negatively affect theater visits. AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group are just to companies that are willing to go to extremes to to combat Home Premiere. AMC and Regal will have nothing to do with Home Premiere. In fact, the chains will not showcase any movie that will be a part of that service. Furthermore, Regal won’t play as many movie trailers from Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. or 20th Century Fox. Regal’s methods may come off as extreme, but its arms are tied. Since the theater doesn’t know what upcoming movies will be added to the Home Premiere lineup, it will cut back on all of them just in case. The problem is that Home Premiere can be used as an alternative to traditional movie going. Groups of people can go to one home and watch a movie before it’s available to rent or purchase. If those same people went to the theater instead, the theater could make money on tickets and concessions. AMC and Regal must believe Home Premiere will cost it a fortune in the long run if it’s willing to blacklist certain movies. It may lose money from doing this, but at the same time, the movies they refuse to show won’t get promoted as well. AMC and Regal are two of the biggest movie theater chains in North America, so those studios could also take a significant hit from ticket loses. Read [Los Angeles Times] Also Read [Electronista] Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Business News, Video, Video Providers, Web, Web Browsers, Online Music/Video, Google  The latest beta for the Google Chrome web browser may not have a chromed out icon anymore, but it has made up for that with its speech to text feature. This feature changes what you speak into text on-screen. This feature hasn’t been fully implemented yet, but it opens the door for many useful applications in the future. One such application is voice-controlled YouTube demo.
Robert Oschler is a developer who put together a functional demo showcasing voice controls for YouTube. He threw everything together in only three days using the Chrome 11 beta’s HTML5 speech input technology. Though I would have never figured out how to do this, Oschler made everything sound relatively simple in an email to VentureBeat. “The actual speech integration was achieved with a single html INPUT element that carried the webkit tag for speech input,” Oschler wrote. “The rest of the time was spent learning the YouTube REST API and adding some Javascript to facilitate the demo.” If you have the Chrome 11 beta, you can try out the demo right now. In my tests, I found the speech recognition to be very accurate, but it’s not perfect. Clicking on the microphone icon allows you to perform a voice search, select a video from the results, play and stop videos. I didn’t have trouble with anything except when it came time to stop videos. Every time I did, a new search would begin. Other than that, it’s an impressive feat for something that was put together in a few days. Site [Web 2 Voice] Read [VentureBeat] Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Business News, Computers, Software / Applications, Web, Online Music/Video, Google Another hint has emerged regarding Google’s upcoming music service. The company recently purchased PushLife for an estimated price of $25 million. PushLife specializes in syncing iTunes libraries with devices that are not made by Apple. Those devices include Android and BlackBerry phones. By acquiring PushLife, Google sets itself up to solve a significant issue in regards to syncing music. A lot of people have turned to iTunes to purchase and store their music. It’s hard to abandon one service you’ve invested a lot of time and money in for another service that is incompatible. With PushLife’s methods, it’ll be simple to keep everything associated with your iTunes account on an Android device. It’s possible that songs purchased or stored on iTunes could be uploaded to Google’s cloud. This should make the transition from iTunes easier, especially if Google beats Apple to market. PushLife could also be a way for Google to sell music from within the Android music app. There’s an option inside the leaked Android music player for downloads over WiFi, though this may be limited to saving music from the cloud, onto a device. Still, it’ll be silly not to have a music store within the music app. Site [PushLife] Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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