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Redbox claims that 20th Century Fox and Warner Home Video are inhibiting the DVD rental kiosk company from purchasing DVDs from retailers like Wal-Mart and Target. Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.com Video Business reports that Redbox, which is embroiled in lawsuits with both […] Read more »

HealthGuru Raises $3.2 Million; health site and provider of online health videos get Series C led by Castile Ventures. (emailed release) Mio.TV Files for Bankruptcy; online destination for Latinos to watch TV and interact ran out of cash. (Multichannel News) Best Buy Adds Netflix to Insignia; […] Read more »

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Twitvid.io Gets Money, Changes Name to Vidly; video add-on for Twitter avoids competitor confusion with the name change and gets a $500,000 angel round. (TechCrunch) A&E Television to Buy Lifetime; financial terms not disclosed, Lifetime will be a subsidiary of A&E and branding will remain separate. […] Read more »

Kiosks to Make up 30 Percent of DVD Rentals Within the Next Year; that’s up from 19 percent this year; in the first half of ’09, video rental stores made up 45 percent or the rental market and subscription services accounted for 36 percent. (NPD Group) […] Read more »

Redbox has found itself at the center of a Hollywood war over the price of movie rentals, and up until now, sides have lined up either with the kiosk rental company (Sony, Lionsgate) or against it (Universal, Warner Bros., Fox). Paramount has chosen a third option […] Read more »

Well, we knew it was coming. Redbox has now filed a lawsuit against Time Warner’s Warner Home Video unit over the studio’s plan to inhibit the DVD kiosk company from obtaining new release movies as soon as they come out. For those of you keeping track, […] Read more »

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