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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedInternet-distributed high-def is growing: big proponents include Microsoft.(high definition video)(Microsoft Corp.)
Video Business, August, 2005 by Sweeting, Paul
Although the DVD industry remains divided into Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD camps, high-definition video is taking flight on the Internet. Boosted by an emerging technical consensus behind the use of Microsoft's Windows Media Video/HD format and growing access to broadband, the 'Net is attracting growing interest from producers and distributors seeking to get high-def content in front of an audience.
Movie download services such as CinemaNow and Movielink are already experimenting with high-def delivery. And high-def producers, such as cable channel HDNet and Imax film company Big Picture Video, are making more of their programming available on the Web. Even the major studios are making high-def trailers available for streaming through a variety of...
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