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Time Warner to offer "download to burn" movies

By Erik Orejuela, TechSpot.com
Published: November 29, 2006, 3:38 PM EST
Time Warner to offer

The media giant recently announced they will be opening a new movie download service that will allow users to burn the downloaded content to DVDs. According to Reuters the announcement was confirmed by Time Warner's CEO, Richard Parson. This could become an improved new way to buy movies as some people find it more reassuring to buy a physical product than an intangible one.

Time Warner hopes this will attract a new crowd of buyers who were relentless to buy from other downloadable movie services.

"I expect we will be in a download-to-burn mode in 2007 -- It will be a part of next year's offerings," Richard Parsons, chief executive and chairman of Time Warner, said at the third annual Reuters Media Summit in New York.

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User Comments (2)

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crossfire851
on November 30, 2006
1:53 AM
Well in this case, they should have the set price at 3/4 of the retail price, because you also have to pay for the dvds and they don't.

deunnero
on January 22, 2008
8:13 PM
Just Curious... will buying a dvd count towards your usage for that month >.>??
lol.
Double whammy, Have to pay for bandwidth and the download for the dvd. Which is set at retail price.