The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1523  Friday, 13 August 2004

From:           Jay Feldman <
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Date:           Thursday, 12 Aug 2004 08:01:35 -1000
Subject:        Online Shakespeare Movies

I snipped this from a New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/technology/circuits/12basi.html?8cir=&pagewanted=print&position=

An Online Supplier for Your Desktop Cineplex
By TIM GNATEK

Going to the movies these days may simply involve a trip to your
desktop, as video-on-demand Internet movie services help turn personal
computers into multiscreen cineplexes.

A technological step beyond video rentals and pay-per-view cable movie
channels, these online movie services provide a legal and reliable way
to download and stream thousands of films, from recently released
Hollywood blockbusters to vintage serials.
<snip>
Movielink (www.movielink.com) takes a different approach to online movie
rentals. A joint venture of MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures
Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers, it offers one-time
rentals for $2 to $5 rather than a monthly subscription. The Movielink
catalog has 800 popular films in 18 categories, including foreign movies
and some Shakespeare along with the standard action and romance titles.
<snip>

They offer 33 BBC versions of Shakespeare's plays. The article only
mentioned Shakespeare's films as a part of the Movielink service so I
did not check: starzticket.com, movieflix.com, or cinemanow.com.

Jay Feldman, with apologies to Tanya

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