Re: M&A is back but tempered...not totally if ya got the cash.
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''0006] Due to pressures from the movie industry, the digital revolution has been largely absent in areas other than music. Despite the possible benefits from new digital hardware and software to view movies, the movie industry fears letting the proverbial cat out of the bag. The pressure has limited the possibilities of downloading movies at home, or allowing them to be transferred between digital devices. The movie industry often doesn't allow its movies to even be distributed in a digital format before the release to video, fearing that people won't pay to see movies at the theater if they already have them at home. ''The present invention enables digital media content to be easily stored in the multimedia device. [0018] In the present invention, a predetermined file format can be used to store the digital media content. The predetermined file format can be configured to be incompatible with the file formats used by major computer operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, and Apple's operating system.'' http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=Bostenero&OS=Bostenero&RS=Bostenero http://agoracom.com/ir/edigital/forums/discussion/topics/345496-from-the-10k/messages/1198581#message e