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Internet - Aliya Sternstein, 09.29.03, 5:15 PM ETNEW YORK - Movie piracy has scared the mouse house into beaming videorentals through the air. This week, The Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS -news - people ) launches MovieBeam, a new on-demand movie-rentalservice that transmits videos to the home television via a digitalwireless signal and the existing broadcast spectrum. The technologystreams new releases and classics from most major studios, minusParamount, to the TV, independent of cable service. Current fare, suchas Phone Booth and Gangs of New York, cost $4, plus a $7 monthlyservice fee and $30 activation fee in some markets.MovieBeam works like a malleable pay-per-view service. Subscriberschoose from among 100 selections, hit play, get charged and then have24 hours to stop, rewind, pause and fast-forward as much as theylike. The movies are stored on a 160-gigabyte hard drive, whichconnects to the back of the TV and phone line. Present plans call forthe limited service to reach homes in Jacksonville, Fla., Salt LakeCity, and Spokane, Wash. A Disney representative says new markets willopen by early 2004. MovieBeam is operated by Buena Vista Datacasting,a wholly owned Disney subsidiary.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=35849615
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