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Cinema on Web Partners With DivX to Securely Distribute Bollywood Films Online Simultaneously with Theatrical Release.


SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  -- Cinema On Web (also known as GO COW GO), an online cinema multiplex See multiplexing.  and Web broadcasting network, today announced the online release of first-run films in secure DivX(R) format simultaneously on the web with their theatrical releases. The first set of films in the program include Bollywood blockbusters like "Page 3," "CU at 9" and "Mumbai Express." These films can be purchased at DivX and COW websites.

Powered by the DivX Open Video System, the new service from Cinema on Web is also among the first to deliver its cinematic content encrypted, licensed and encoded at the highest level of visual quality. Sneak previews sneak preview
n.
A single public showing of a movie before its general release.

Noun 1. sneak preview - a preview to test audience reactions
 of the most popular Bollywood scenes are also available in high-quality DivX format.

Cinema on Web partner DivX, Inc. offers a complete Video-on-Demand (VOD See video-on-demand.

VoD - video on demand
) and Digital Rights Management (DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio.

(2) (Digital Rights M
) platform to address widespread piracy. DivX DRM makes it easy for users to purchase legal and protected content over the Internet. In the near future, COW expects to implement the DivX Burn-To-Own/Burn-to-Rent program that allows for the playback of secure online content on DivX Certified DVD players. There are currently over 30 million DivX Certified DVD players available at retailers worldwide.

GO COW GO has also successfully launched their new product called GO COW GO MOVIE THEATRE TECHNOLOGY through which anyone can become an exhibitor, set their own ticket prices and commercially web broadcast any of their content worldwide from their own PC without the use of cable or satellite. GO COW GO MOVIE THEATRE hopes to attract over 50 million subscribers monthly.

For more information, visit www.cinemaonweb.com or www.gocowgo.com today.

About DivX, Inc.

DivX, Inc. is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX (R) video codec (1) A hardware circuit that converts analog video (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) into digital code and vice versa. The term may refer to only the A/D and D/A conversion, or it may include the compression technique for further reducing the signal (definition #2 below). See codec. , among the world's most popular video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression.

video compression - Compression of sequences of images.
 technologies with over 160 million users worldwide. Often called "the MP3 of video," the patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivX, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation).
San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951.
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