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20th Century Fox Joins Universal on iCloud

Apple’s argue with HBO has come to an end. Few months ago, Apple finished the debates with HBO who agreed to make Universal Pictures content available for download. Fox went live this Thursday and joined the other movie studios on iCloud.

Thus, iCloud users can now download content from Lions Gate Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner’s Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox.

Back in March,  movie catalogs from both Universal Pictures and Fox were accessible, but only Universal movies were available for download. Several iCloud users noticed last night that the warning marking movies from Fox had disappeared, meaning that Fox Studios finished negotiations with HBO and got loosened of its constraints.

Source: 9to5 Mac

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Universal Studios’ movies available on iCloud

Apple’s last month debates with HBO have come to an end, thus, iCloud users can now download content from Universal Pictures while 20th Century Fox remains reticent.

Due to HBO’s constraints, Universal was unable to integrate its movies with Apple’s iCloud in March, but this weekend the Universal content became available through iCloud. These are some good news especially for the users who previously purchased Universal movies from iTunes, now being able to re-download them for no cost.

In iTunes, the movies from Fox contain a warning that accentuates the fact that “when purchased, this movie will not be available from iTunes in the Cloud.” Meanwhile, the Universal content was absolved from this warning.

20th Century Fox is still negotiating with HBO and expects to make its movies available through iCloud as soon as possible

Source: AppleInsider

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iCloud users to access Universal and Fox movies

After days of argument with important movie studios, namely Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros, Apple finally got to the agreement that people will be able to watch movies on its devices, including Apple TV, through the iCloud service.

Apple already had an agreement with popular record labels and television studios, but Apple seems to have thought to bring also movie makers into discussion once with the release of the new iPad that has a highly capable screen.

Meanwhile, other two major companies, namely Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, are unable to integrate their movies with Apple’s iCloud due to their deal HBO, Time Warner’s TV channel, and to HBO’s exclusive rights.

As a matter of course, HBO will not give up to its exclusive windows, which allows the channel to beam a new movie to consumers, but it might consider to enable iCloud users to send a movie they own to other devices during the restriction period of time.

The Fox and Universal companies are willing to integrate with Apple’s iCloud, reason for which HBO might loosen its contract with both of them. But the debates are still in progress.

Apple offers to consumers resources and devices for a better technology experience on lots of plans, such as music, education and business, and it seems that its new aim, namely the movie field, is also close to its accomplishment

Source: The Wall Street Journal