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"A couple of new studies project similar numbers for the expected boom in Internet video over the next few years. Parks Associates says consumer spending on broadband video will grow from about $1 billion this year to about $6 billion in 2013.

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"A study from Parks Associates says that a 10-megabit connection is needed to stream HD content and that only about 9 million U.S. homes would qualify this year.

But that number should leap to 33 million homes by 2012, says the report by Yuanzhe Michael - ...read more

Some big retailers, including Netflix, Blockbuster, and even Wal-Mart, meanwhile, are experimenting with their own downloading services. "Vudu's service is in many respects a little better than others," says Kurt Scherf, a market - ...read more

Movie stars and moguls were among the first to own screening rooms back in the 1920s and 1930s: The 50-seat theater was the largest room in William Randolph Hearst's castle at San Simeon, Calif. When big-screen TV s emerged in the mid-1980s, a few wealthy folks began - ...read more