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The News Corp is extending its tentacles over MySpace and Direct2Drive users with its businesses.
Fox Interactive Media and Twentieth Century Fox announced that a multi-year agreement was signed and movies and shows like “X-Men The Last Stand”,”The Omen”, “24″ and “Prison Break” would be offered to the Direct2Drive site in October in the beginning and later to the MySpace users.
The downloaded material will be able to play it on up to two PCs and one portable device. Unfortunately, the service will not allow for users to burn downloaded material to DVD. It seems that these agreements don’t listen to the users who clearly say that they don’t need such kind of deals.
Television episodes will cost consumers $1.99 per episode while feature films will cost $19.99. The films and TV episodes can be downloaded and played on all Microsoft Windows Media-compatible devices. Because the content cannot be downloaded to DVD, the immediate financial effect of the move is not expected to be substantial at first — but analysts expect consumers to gain faith in the service later.
One question should be asked. Why would anyone want to pay for a movie $19.99 and play it only on its PC or portable device when for the same money, or less, you can rent it or buy it. But do they listen? They just make this kind of deals to make some money no matter the way they do it.
Fox Interactive Media President Ross Levinsohn said: “Today marks an important step as we continue to build a bridge between the worlds of user-generated and top-quality professional content, further enhancing our range of consumer offerings across both free, ad-supported, and paid download business models.”
Apple’s iTunes already offers television shows from Fox, but the downloaded material can only be played through iTunes or on an iPod. Twentieth Century Fox currently sells films through Movielink and CinemaNow.
Tags: Fox Interactive Media, Twentieth Century Fox, MySpace, Direct2Drive, movies, shows, download
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