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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Digital video recorder maker TiVo is set to announce Thursday that hundreds of movie titles, most significantly from Disney, will be available to its broadband subscribers courtesy of deals with CinemaNow and Jaman.

TiVo is no stranger to delivering movies to TV screens by way of the Internet; it has been doing so through a relationship with Amazon Video on Demand, a service that has been up and running since last year, though under the name Unbox.

Amazon VOD, though, doesn’t include Disney films. CinemaNow offers a service that includes movies from many studios, though TiVo users will only get Disney films. Thus, TiVo now can offer movies from all the major studios through a combination of Amazon VOD and CinemaNow.

For the past few years, TiVo has been repositioning itself as a retriever of entertainment content wherever it resides, as opposed to a simple recorder of TV shows. That’s why it has struck several partnerships, including one with YouTube.

The company views the strategy as a way to differentiate itself from other DVRs from cable and satellite TV companies that do less but are cheaper and more popular. There are about 36.2 million DVRs in U.S. homes, but only about 3.6 million of them are TiVos.

Like with Amazon VOD, the Jaman and CinemaNow services will allow users to choose movies — either by way of their TV screens or by cell phones or computers — and have them downloaded to their TiVo hard drives. The titles will show up as saved content similar to the TV shows they have recorded.

CinemaNow rents movies for as little as $2.99 and includes such titles as “Dumbo,” “The Fox and the Hound” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”

Jaman’s contribution is a boatload of such independent titles as “Super Size Me” and “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” Jaman titles will rent for as low as $1.99, with some short films and more obscure titles being offered for free.

“Our goal is to offer unlimited media content through one device with one easy-to-use interface, and these partnerships ensure that vision has become reality,” TiVo GM of content services Tara Maitra said.

Source — Yahoo!

ORANGE, N.J., Aug. 1 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) – Zakariyya Ishaq, author, is pleased to announce the release of the groundbreaking book: “The Ellipse: The Fall and Rise of The Human Soul: Secrets of the Cosmos” (ISBN: 978-0-9809995-2-5) - Journey into the Soul, Apocalypse, and the Destiny of Humankind.

This is the real Matrix: The term ellipse, which means imperfect circle, as opposed to the perfect circle - the universal symbol of perfection - is the updated metaphor that replaces the traditional concepts of God and the devil, and good and evil, as the human race evolves out of the age of mythology to the era of the merging of science and spirituality.

This spiritual saga describes the inner and outer soul of the universe, the apocalypse, and the destiny of the human race. Delving deeper than any metaphysical writer of the past or present, the book reveals new insights about the fall of man and the soul’s journey to its ultimate destiny in unraveling the mysteries of its existence. Meanwhile clarifying pervasive distortions and misconceptions within religion and metaphysics.

The non-fiction book begins by revealing the inner meaning of the allegory of the Garden of Eden. This mystical allegory was given to humans by advanced adepts in antiquity as a guide to understanding the origin of evil and suffering.

About the Author: Zakariyya Ishaq, an author and pioneer in Integral metaphysics, is a thirty-year mystic, metaphysician, and student in the ancient wisdom traditions of Sufism, Islam, Yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Hermitic Science, and Christian Gnosticism. Having drunk deep at the ocean of mystical knowledge he reveals the secrets of the cosmos in the ellipse that answers many of the age old questions that have challenged the understanding of believers in God, philosophers, and mystical seekers by exploring these topics: 1) The essence of man, 2) The origin of evil and suffering, 3) The end of evil and suffering, 4) A definition of God, 5) The reality of creation, 6) The nature of the soul, 7) The burden of the apocalypse, A new understanding of the Jesus mystery, and 9) The destiny of humankind.

This dynamic mystical cosmology is explained so the laymen and practitioners of metaphysics, religion and New Age ideas can enjoy an inspirational book that exhorts humanity to peaceful co-existence, and at the same time be well informed on the spiritual science that are at the root of their practice, and belief.

More information about the book and author: www.ellipsebook.com.

Source — Send 2 Press

WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive order banning offshore oil drilling, the White House said.

The move is largely symbolic because there is also a federal law banning offshore drilling.

Bush has been pushing Congress to repeal the law passed in 1981.

“There is no excuse for delay,” the president said in a Rose Garden statement last month.

“In the short run, the American economy will continue to rely largely on oil, and that means we need to increase supply here at home,” Bush said, adding that there is no more pressing issue for many Americans than gas prices.

Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, signed the executive order in 1990 banning offshore drilling.

The president plans to announce his decision at 1:30 p.m. in the Rose Garden.

The issue has gained prominence in the presidential race. Sen. John McCain recently announced he supported offshore oil drilling, reversing his previous stance.

Sen. Barack Obama wants to keep the ban in place.

Experts say offshore oil drilling would not have an immediate impact on oil prices because oil exploration takes years.

“If we were to drill today, realistically speaking, we should not expect a barrel of oil coming out of this new resource for three years, maybe even five years, so let’s not kid ourselves,” said Fadel Gheit, oil and gas analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. Equity Capital Markets Division.

But it almost certainly would be profitable.

Candida Scott, an oil industry researcher at Cambridge Research Associates, said oil needs to be priced at $60 a barrel or more to justify deep-shelf drilling. With oil now selling for $145 a barrel, companies are almost assured of profiting from offshore drilling, Scott said.

In his statement last month, Bush also renewed his demand that Congress allow drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, clear the way for more refineries and encourage efforts to recover oil from shale in areas such as the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

The White House estimates that there are 18 billion barrels of oil offshore that have not been exploited because of state bans, 10 billion to 12 billion in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the Green River Basin.

Source — CNN