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Disney Remains Ambiguous About UltraViolet Partnership
[February 23, 2012]
The battle for your home entertainment dollars is heating up as three industry giants are going head-to-head to dominate the market. At the forefront we have Apple’s iTunes Store, which has offered video downloads of popular movies and TV shows for a fee since 2005. Apple currently has the lion’s share of the market with millions of satisfied customers worldwide.
The runner-up is UltraViolet, which went live in October 2011. The UltraViolet format combines physical products such as DVD and Blu-ray movies with an online, cloud-based “storage locker” system that will allow consumers to “buy once, play anywhere.”
Though the system has received mixed reviews so far, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) is hard at work ironing out the bugs to improve the overall user experience of UltraViolet…
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