HBO loosening its grip on Fox, Universal to allow iCloud movie syncing

HBO is working on loosening its grip on movie studios in order to allow them to offer their films to sync across Apple's iCloud, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed. This means that, eventually, films from Universal and Fox may soon enjoy the same iCloud syncing as films from Lions Gate, Sony Pictures, Disney, Paramount, and Warner Bros. iCloud's ability to sync movies across iOS devices and computers was only announced last week during Apple's March 7 media event—previously, the service was able to sync music purchases from iTunes, TV shows, and music videos. As usual for these kinds of rollouts, not every movie studio was on board with the launch, in part due to their agreements with other content distribution companies like network cable channels. HBO is one of those channels—it has agreements with a number of movie studios that they won't make their content available on other mediums until after its own exclusive viewing window has passed, but according to the WSJ , HBO is "relaxing ...

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