Disney is roll out a new television - on - demand service called MovieBeam that is sort of a interbreeding between a TiVo and HBO On Demand . What it is , is a a set - top box ( made by Samsung ) with a hard drive which has 100 videodisk - quality movies stored on it that you associate to your TV . The box costs $ 6.99 a calendar month to let , plus anywhere between $ 2.50 to $ 4.00 for each title you need to watch , with ten new movies becoming available on the box each week . The moving-picture show are downloaded onto the box wirelessly , and though none of the clause mentions how it ’s done , a little bit of enquiry reveals that Disney is using Dotcast ’s system , which squeezes a digital signal into existing analog telly program , to transmit all that data . The system is being try out first in Jacksonville , Salt Lake City , and Spokane , and will feature movies MGM , Miramax Films , New Line Cinema , Sony Pictures Entertainment , Universal Studios , Warner Bros. and twentieth Century Fox , as well as Disney .
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