DVD Deal Lets Films Go From Web to TV

The L.A.Times reports:

Hollywood studios will cross a significant technological and psychological frontier today when they offer the first downloadable movies that can be legally burned onto a DVD.

Four major studios struck a deal with online movie service CinemaNow Inc. to offer more than 100 mainstream titles that can be copied to a disc and played on almost any DVD player or television set. Prices will start at about $9 a movie.

The deal was hailed as a milestone in Internet distribution, giving film fans what they've long demanded: the convenience of downloading a movie and playing it on the living room TV.

Further bad news for the local video store.