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Media Decoder Blog: Facebook Now Must Balance User Experience and Investor Experience

Facebook has largely managed to avoid being seen as greedy, or potentially dangerous, but that gets complicated when you are sitting on billions of dollars in market value.

Media Decoder Blog: Verizon Teaming With Redbox for DVD and Streaming Service

The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.

Media Decoder Blog: Verizon Teaming With Redbox for DVD and Streaming Service

The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.

Media Decoder: The Breakfast Meeting: In Ads, Super Bowl Was Humdrum, Though Madonna Came to Play

Also, new media hopes in The Daily and BuzzFeed, and newspapers find hope in video.

A New ‘Stream Team’? Verizon And Redbox Take On Netflix

Offering perhaps the most defined threat to streaming movie leader Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) so far, Verizon and Redbox parent company Cointstar are going into business together. The companies announced Monday they’re partnering on a new subscription video service that will combine Redbox’s DVD and Blu-ray rental strengths with video streaming through Verizon’s networks.

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Editorial | State of Play: Perpetual War: Digital Pirates and Creators

Stopping digital piracy, which is growing by leaps and bounds, is about protecting creativity — and jobs.

Media Decoder Blog: Does Honda Get a Day Off From Paying a ‘Ferris Bueller’ Copyright Fee?

A Super Bowl advertisement from Honda does a riff on the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off,'' complete with Matthew Broderick feigning illness. Is that copyright infringement? Honda apparently didn't take the chance.

Have The Hollywood Studios Finally Beaten Down Kaleidescape?

In the mid-2000s, a technology called Kaleidescape was all the rage among the Hollywood intelligensia. Fillmakers like Brett Ratner and high-end consumers raved about Kaleidescape, which lets owners upload their entire DVD collections onto one centralized hard drive that can be accessed from any screening room in their swanky homes.

The company behind the service...

Media Decoder Blog: At Sundance, Bing Led the Pack in Getting Noticed

Among all the companies clambering at the edges of the festival, the Microsoft search engine was the most successful in getting mentioned in online media, a study found.

Media Decoder Blog: A Superhero Film Goes Minimalist

In "Chronicle,'' a small Hollywood film, the normally extravagant superhero narrative is given a toned-down presentation and tries to capitalize on its intimacy.

Media Decoder Blog: What the Change at the Top of Sony May Mean for Sony Pictures

Conventional wisdom in Hollywood has been that when Howard Stringer departed as chief executive the pictures group might be put up for sale, a theory that Sony has denied.

Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: A Week of Negative Ads, and New Chief at Sony

Also, the Facebook I.P.O., Amazon's earnings disappoint and academics boycott Elsevier over the pricing of journals.