Royal Opera House Buys DVD Company
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LONDON - The Royal Opera House bought its own DVD recording and distribution company, purchasing Opus Arte for $11.3 million in an agreement announced Wednesday.  Covent Garden said the deal marked the first time an opera company acquired its own DVD recording business.
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consortium led by the Sony Corporation of America reached a tentative agreement today to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Hollywood studio famous for James Bond and the Pink Panther, for
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The retailer turns its download service, which accounts for roughly 40 percent of all DVD sales, over to Netflix after its software provider, Hewlett-Packard, discontinues its own merchant-store service.
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Company agrees to settle charges over copy-protection software it included in music CDs.
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Britain's Royal Opera company turns 60 next month and celebrates with a lavish new production of Georges Bizet's "Carmen", the same opera it performed at its inauguration shortly after the end of World War Two.
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Movie Gallery Inc. on Friday said it has offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp. for an undisclosed sum, one week after Blockbuster Inc. bid about &#36;700 million for Hollywood.
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The Metropolitan Opera is getting back into the DVD business.
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"We will invest, we'll put new blood into the company ... with acquisitions worldwide"  Endemol's new owners will invest and look at acquisitions worldwide, John De Mol, who founded the television content company and is now buying it with Italy's Mediaset , told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. via Reuters UK
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Gets content from last-two-to-licence 'big four' recording firms
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LONDON  --  The Royal Opera House bought its own DVD recording and distribution company, purchasing Opus Arte for $11.3 million in an agreement announced Wednesday.  Covent Garden said the deal marked the first time an opera company acquired its own DVD recording business.
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Vivendi's Universal Music has agreed to   buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion)   in a long-expected deal that makes the world's biggest seller   of recorded music also the largest in music publishing.
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"We intend to enter into a long-term commitment in the United Kingdom and make continuous investments in the quality of our services."  German state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG announced Monday it has agreed to buy Britain's Laing Rail, which runs passenger services in central and southern England. via CNN
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Lovefilm has taken over Amazon's UK and German DVD rental businesses while Amazon becomes its top investor.
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The system could mean that users will have to buy all-new DVD+RW gear.
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In a natural extension of its live-event business, Clear Channel Entertainment is moving into the music DVD market this spring.
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The studio built to stage the special effects for the 1997 film epic "Titanic" is being sold.
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Amazon UK has entered the DVD rental business in a bid to cash-in on this growing sector of the entertainment industry. For Â£7.99 a month, subscribers can have two movies at home at one time, with a total of four DVD rentals a month.