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Paul Snyder’s featured article on The Huffington Post took an interesting angle on the old debate of physical vs. digital media. Rather then looking at it as one format trying to kill the other, Paul looked at as two formats which are geared towards different audiences. In the corner for digital media was our very own Founder and CEO Efe Cakarel, who described the advantages of digital’s viral loop:

“The ‘I want to watch this’ button is a powerful tool, one that not only tells rights holders how much their new or old films are desired by audiences around the world, but also a virally powerful one that let’s interest in supposedly niche titles ripple out through audiences’ social graphs. Suddenly a small film becomes known to all your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter—it’s a great way of spreading awareness and interest in these films.”

Read the whole article on The Huffington Post.

Engadget just broke the news that Jobs & Co. plan to unveil a new version of the Apple TV that will use a flavor of iPhone 4 OS, be capable of 1080p HD, use cloud-based storage and—the biggest surprise—cost only $99.

Though an official announcement at next month’s WWDC isn’t expected, Jobs might have “one more thing” tucked under his black turtleneck sleeve.

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Martin Scorsese is not just the most avid cinephile, but also a passionate film preservationist. Three years ago Scorsese started the World Cinema Foundation to rescue neglected films from various corners of the world. And a year ago The Auteurs was bestowed with the honor of being a distribution partner for the foundation and offers four of the restored films for free in an online cinema. This growing interest and urgency in saving film has recently been covered by CNN.com’s The Screening Room in their article “Scorsese and friends race to save film classics from destruction”:

“Film preservation is always an uphill battle. There’s never enough time,” Scorsese said at Cannes last year.

“One has to think of history in the past 3,000 years, how much literature was lost. So, whatever we can do now, we’re going to save something.”

On a Scorsese related note be sure to check out our Martin Scorsese Mini-Retrospective: Music & Redemption.