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MGM Creates Virtual Online Tour to Expand Fan Base, Drive New Revenue

To give fans the ultimate preview of its Stargate Universe television series, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM worked with Microsoft to create a three-dimensional virtual tour of the show's set. The team used Microsoft Photosynth to stitch together hundreds of digital images of the set and then embedded the synths in a rich...

Tags: Revenue, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Microsoft Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Case studies 2009-08-13

MGM Grand's IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galore

MGM Grand's IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galoreThe house always has the edge ...A lot of Vegas fans believe that they know the system, how to get the best deals and comps, and how to protect themselves against over-extending. But the reality is that comps are...

Tags: Research & Development, MGM Grand, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, RFID, modeling, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

An important concession: MGM says ripping MP3s is OK

An important concession: MGM says ripping MP3s is OKIs that so?.[b]"But they ve now conceded the contrary in open court, so if they actually win this case they ll be barred from challenging ripping in the future under the doctrine of judicial estoppel."[/b]MGM will, maybe, but MGM doesn't speak for...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, media, MP3

Discussion threads 2005-04-02

An important concession: MGM says ripping MP3s is OK

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in MGM v. Grokster. The Grokster case, for those who haven't been following it, concerns the liability of distributors of P2P software. As we all know, there are legitimate uses for P2P software (think BitTorrent and distributing Linux ISOs, which are legally free...

Tags: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Grokster Ltd.

Blog posts 2005-04-01

Be Cool Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Check out the screensaver for this John Travolta sequel. John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer the sequel to the comedy smash Get Shorty. This time Chili becomes a different kind if 'hit' man- he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music...

Tags: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Screensaver, Microsoft Windows, Negotiation, John Travolta, Free Trade, Finance

Software downloads 2005-03-12

Be Cool Screensaver (Mac)

Check out the screensaver for this John Travolta sequel. John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer the sequel to the comedy smash Get Shorty. This time Chili becomes a different kind if 'hit' man- he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music...

Tags: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, Negotiation, John Travolta, Free Trade, Finance

Software downloads 2005-03-12

Machine Hunter demo (Windows)

The year is 2084. Mars is being overrun by a horde of alien-dominated death robots planning to invade Earth. Your mission: Destroy the army of mechanized killers one by one, invade their bodies, and then use their powers to annihilate the rest of the evil throng before they destroy Earth....

Tags: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Earth, Robots, Microsoft Windows, Games, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 1997-06-08

Additional Resources

Reports: New deals could help YouTube's revenue model

It appears that a revenue stream might finally be heading You Tube's way - in two forms. CNET is reporting that Google-owned YouTube will soon have some payment mechanisms built into the video-sharing sites. After Google reported first-quarter profits today, company CEO Eric Schmidt said of YouTube:...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Finance, Google Inc., Home Entertainment, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Revenue, Sam Diaz, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals

A report in the Financial Times says that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to provide movie rentals on the iTunes Store: Apple has signed News Corp’s 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Studio, Apple Inc., Movie, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video On Demand (VoD), Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Sorry, Bit Torrent-these legit content deals of yours are like farts in a blizzard

Borderline vulgar term meaning little impact. OK, so BitTorrents new Digital Entertainment Network has 5,000 titles, including first run films such as Little MissSunshine, An Inconvenient Truth, Superman Returns, and Poseidon. Its good to know that such mainstream studios such as 20th CenturyFox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures,...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-02-26