The latest chapter in the never-ending anticipation of Apple’s streaming music service sees Warner Music striking a deal, according to CNET sources. Whether or not they’re one of the labels mentioned in last week’s rumours , nobody knows. [CNET via Engadget]
AllThingsD is reporting that EMI Music has just signed a deal with Spotify. Counting Spotify’s previous deal with Sony, the awesometastic music service now has two of the four major record labels locked up. More »
Warner Bros is super, super smart about marketing their Blu-ray discs. First they had Christopher Nolan host a community screening for The Dark Knight. Now director Zack Snyder will do the same for Watchmen. More »
Still sitting on a pile of HD-DVDs that grow more and more embarassing by the day? Warner Bros. has just started up a new program that’ll let you swap them out for Blu-ray versions.
AU: US only, unsurprisingly.
au, It may have taken more than 12 months since the US have had the same ability with iTunes, but Warner Home Video has just announced that they will be offering movies to download through iTunes, BigPond, Foxtel Box Office and other digital download services on the same day and date that they are available on DVD. The first Warner movie to enjoy this freedom? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. More »
According to Reuters, Warner Music Group has ordered YouTube to pull down all music videos by its artists, which could affect hundreds of thousands of videos. The reason? Money (what else could it be?). Apparently Warner aren’t exactly impressed by the paltry return they’re getting from the video site, a site they believe they helped build when they agreed to share their music video content before Google dropped billions of dollars buying them out.
Already the format of choice for, ahem, somewhat clandestine distribution of digital video files, DivX has now officially partnered with Warner Bros. to distribute video in the format. Sony beat WB to the punch by about 9 months, and we’ll have to wait even longer for Warner to come around to HD DivX, which won’t be ready until September of next year. SD downloads are expected to become available this month. Full details follow.
Rumours and logic speculated that Warner would release The Dark Knight in time for the holiday season, and the Blu-ray two-disc and collectible limited edition will indeed go on sale December 9th, the same day as the standard DVD release. The standard, two-disc edition will be Warner’s first BD Live disc, and it’ll pack all sorts of Baterrific extras. From HiDef Digest:
Is this is it? The beginning of decent Blu-ray movie prices? Warner Bros. is going cut prices on a smorgasbord of Blu-ray movies for retailers in September (some as low as US$11), meaning you should see the them slide at least a couple of bucks.
