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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Netflix declines studios' requests for 'buy' button]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Netflix is fixed on movie rentals and isn't interested in selling films anytime soon. Hollywood is looking for new ways to convince consumers to start collecting movies again. (Credit:Greg Sandoval)That's what leaders from the Web's top video-rental service have told some of Hollywood's top film companies, industry insiders told CNET over the past week. In licensing talks with Netflix, execs from the film studios have offered better terms if the video service agreed to add &quot;buy&quot; buttons. Netflix, which mails DVDs as well as streams video to subscribers, has always declined, the sources said. Managers there have told studio counterparts that they aren't interested in doing transactions. A Netflix representative declined to comment.  Hollywood's home-video market is in transition. People aren't buying and collecting DVDs like they once were and over the past year the momentum has all been with rental.  Netflix's streaming-video rental service, which offers instant access to a growing library of mostly catalog titles, has become an entertainment juggernaut with more than 20 million subscribers. This isn't the best news for the movie business. For the studios a movie rental is typically less profitable than a sale. Asking Netflix to help boost sales was a natural move, especially when other merchants have agreed to sell films as well as rent.  One film industry insider said Amazon's new subscription service became more attractive to the studios after the Internet retailer agreed to give them a crack at generating some transaction money as part of their new streaming-video subscription service.  Amazon announced it would stream any of 5,000 films and TV shows for free to members of the Web store's Prime service. Prime subscribers are customers who pay $79 a year to receive free two-day shipping without being required to meet any minimum-purchase requirements. In addition to offering streaming rentals to prime members, Amazon also has posted a buy button on movie pages.  Could this help Amazon build a better relationship with its video suppliers than Netflix Conceivably, but Netflix still possesses a far larger following and it's unlikely that anybody competing in the streaming sector could acquire better terms at this point. It's interesting to note that some studio execs said they appreciated the consistency of Netflix's message.  Remember, Hollywood used to enjoy a world in which its different distribution modes were separate from each other in the eyes of the consumer. It used to be that a movie fan walked into Blockbuster and Movie Gallery to rent films, and into Wal-Mart Best Buy, and Amazon to buy them.  Now, Amazon offers streaming rentals while Wal-Mart, has moved into rental kiosks. Some of the clarity has been lost and when a consumer is staring at the same movie with two different prices available: say a $4 rental or $15 purchase, sales are likely to decline. One thing to keep in mind though is that new releases at Netflix are primarily available on disc. A buy button could be something that hardcore fans of, say, the &quot;Harry Potter&quot; movies might press.  Nonetheless, Netflix's pages have always featured little else other than movies and TV shows for rent. No ads or sales. Josh Martin, a video analyst for research group Strategy Analytics, applauded Netflix's decision about buy buttons: &quot;We always have had these silo operations and this one appears to be working,&quot; Martin said. &quot;So why would you introduce unnecessary confusion into the equation&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robot baby head looking for a good caregiver]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Affetto means 'affection' in Italian. Who couldn't love this little guy(Credit:Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET)Japanese engineers have created yet another robot baby, because, you know, you can't have enough of a good thing. Affetto is a tabletop baby head that's cute enough to be in the next Chucky film. Developed by famed Japanese roboticist Minoru Asada, co-founder of the RoboCup tournament, as well as Hisashi Ishihara and Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Affetto follows such terrifying robo-babes as Kindy and Noby, Diego, and the infamous CB2.Will the horror never end Apparently not. Scientists seem to have an insatiable desire to study baby development not by studying real babies, but by building robot babies. Designed to look like a 1- or 2-year-old child (minus the body), Affetto has realistic facial expressions and is meant to be treated as a human being by caregivers. It has lifelike eyes and can open its mouth. You can see its inner workings in a video here, but it might keep you awake at night. Especially if you imagine that head attached to a long, snakelike body creeping toward your bed. Affetto was designed to be more realistic than previous robot babies, to stimulate attachment in a caregiver, according to a research paper on the project from last fall. Osaka University's Asada is involved with the JST Erato Asada Project, which seeks to unravel the secrets of human intelligence by building humanoid robots. Backed by the state-run Japan Science and Technology Agency, it links robotics with cognitive science to test hypotheses about intelligence. As noble as those goals are, the robo-tots do tend to fall into the Uncanny Valley creep zone, in which design flaws in robots repulse human observers. Maybe if they were all designed like Smurfs or leprechauns they'd be a bit more lovable. (Via GetRobo)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chute ensures your phone&'s photos get online]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chute, which keeps track of photos that are destined for the Web and other sharing photo-services, announced that it is launching today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.Chute synchronizes photos with an online storage service after they are taken. When users launch the Chute application, each new photo appears in the application. Chute users then page through each photo, sharing it or saving it on a remote server as they see fit. The idea is to remind users to share the photos they take so they don&amp;'t end up trapped on a phone and never make it to the web. Users can also set Chute to automatically post photos on Flickr, Twitter, Facebook or any other online service.Other Chute users receive notifications when new photos appear in their Chute folder. They can view the photos on the web, on an iPhone application or on a desktop application. Users can then download the photos, rate them, favorite them and share them with other Chute users. Chute is also releasing an application programming interface (API) that other companies can use with their photo services, like Instagram and other photo sharing applications.Chute&amp;'s hook is to make it feel like an inbox and achieve the same satisfaction when the user reaches &amp;''inbox zero&amp;'' after all messages are read. Users page through photos on the iPhone application plow through their entire library until each photo has been uploaded or shared a4&quot; reaching an &amp;''inbox zero&amp;'' state for their photos.But the main appeal is that the photos are automatically uploaded to remote servers a4&quot; so Chute users can still get to them if their phone is stolen or broken. It&amp;'s a pretty crowded space and it&amp;'s tough to monetize, said Dave McClure of &amp;''super angel&amp;'' firm 500 Startups. But the service seems to have a solid use case as a backup service, McClure said.&amp;''Photo zero is a great pitch, but the security is the best aspect,&amp;'' said judge and MailChimp design lead Aarron Walter. &amp;''More people are producing content, I want to back up more stuff.&amp;''Next Story: Domo: The one Launch presentation you must watch (video) Previous Story: Dave McClure has a a4Araging bonera4 for phone startup VoltaPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: photo sharingCompanies: Chute, InstagramPeople: Aarron Walter, Dave McClure          Tags: photo sharingCompanies: Chute, InstagramPeople: Aarron Walter, Dave McClureMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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