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A total of eight new LCD TVs have been announced [JP] by Sony in Tokyo today, and all of them are part of the new BRAVIA EX series. Sony has unveiled four EX700 (flagship) models with LED backlight, one TV named EX500 and three rather basic devices branded as EX300. The EX700 TVs (the biggest model is pictured above) will be available in four sizes: 32 inches (Japanese street price: $1,300) 40 inches ($1,860), 46 inches ($2,600) and 52 inches ($3,300)

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EX series: Sony to roll out 8 new BRAVIA TVs (video)

It’s time for your Hollywood Minute! Late last night it emerged that Marc Webb, the director of (500) Days of Summer , which I think is a romantic comedy/drama judging by the trailer (I do have the rip sitting on one of my hard drives, lest you think we don’t practice what we preach), will direct Spider-Man 4 . The movie is currently scheduled to be released in the summer of 2012, and may well be filmed in 3D. You’ll recall that Sony kicked Sam Raimi off the project because he was being uncooperative.

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Spider-Man 4 gets a director: Marc Webb, from (500) Days of Summer

Boxee has just announced their new Payment Platform, a system to offer pay-per-view and subscription content to paying customers. Boxee expects to take a small percentage of the payment – under 30% – for the service. This would in turn enable services like PayTV and a la carte media downloads, an important part of Boxee’s monetization plan

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Boxee to launch payment system

L.E.K.’s Media Consumption Survey polled over 2,000 consumers, asking them about their general media “diet,” from ereaders to online video. The results? Ereaders are big, older folks are into the Internet, and online radio is finally reaching the mainstream

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Study: Internet radio reaching 32% of households, e-readers are hot

Okay you guys, we’re in the home stretch of winter. To help us get through the kick in the nuts known as “February,” BioShock 2 will be released in a few weeks.

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CrunchDeals: Free BioShock with BioShock 2 pre-order, plus 10% off

You guys like tablets? And Tegra? Well according to DigiTimes, “Asustek Computer plans to unveil a tablet PC based on Nvidia’s Tegra processor at Computex Taipei 2010.” That conference runs from June 1st to the 5th

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ASUS expected to announce sub-$500 Eee Pad in early June

Sony wants you to know that the “Motion Controller” will be available worldwide this Fall. It’s also adamant that the name “Motion Controller” is a tentative name for now.

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Sony officially announces Motion Controller in Fall 2010

Yeah, that leak did a number on the official “release moment” of Olympus’ new micro four-thirds camera.

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Olympus E-P2 gets official – but will it sell?

When Mogulus launched in 2007, few people understood its name. Most people still don’t because, quite frankly, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Or I should say, didn’t make a lot of sense — because beginning today, the service has been completely rebranded as something much more obvious: Livestream.

Mogulus is making the change because it feels like the entire field of streaming live video on the web is on the verge of exploding in popularity, and it’d be hard to find a better name to take advantage of that, as CEO Max Haot tells us. Naturally though, this change would not have been possible without the killer livestream.com domain, which Mogulus acquired recently. Haot wouldn’t tells us how much they paid for the domain, but you can bet it was a very pretty penny. [Update: Domain Name Wire claims it sold for $100,000 - thanks Jeremy]

So now Livestream moves forward. Having just launch its super simple Procaster tool that allows for one-button streaming over video over the web, the first tool Livestream will launch is Broadcaster. It will offer the same one-click simplicity, but will do so completely over a web browser, without any software needing to be downloaded (which you need for Procaster — which is also more powerful).

Mogulus has seen some good growth over the past year in terms of visitors to its site, according to numbers from Compete. I suspect that will rise greatly with this new domain. But it’s the features that make users stick around, and this move to one-click publishing is a good idea — keep it simple, stupid, and all that. Haot also notes that Livestream has over 1,000 paying Pro members, the premium service it launched last year.

So what was Mogulus going for with that name? Well, as you can kind see in the now old logo, it was Mogul-us, as in “anybody can become a media mogul,” Haot says. Yeah, Livestream is much, much better.

Disclosure: Mogulus advertises their Procaster product on this site.

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