Barnes & Noble have announced a Nook video service for home network theaters. The Nook video service can be used for streaming and downloading video. The company has confirmed deals with companies like HBO, Starz, Viacom, Warner Bros., Disney, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, with other partners to be announced later. (Image credit: Flickr) 
According to the company's press release -
The revamped Nook video service for home network theaters is larger move into the multi-media market. In fact the company is also giving customers who buy a DVD or Blu-ray access to a digital copy on the Nook app. However given that UltraViolet hasn't made much progress even with Amazon on board it remains to be seen how successful the venture will be. Do you own a Nook tablet? Would you use the Nook video service for home network theaters, let us know in the comments below.
According to the company's press release -Beginning this fall in the US and coming this holiday season to the UK, NOOK Video will offer customers the opportunity to shop an extensive and diverse digital collection of standard and high-definition movies and TV shows available for streaming and download. Through deals with these and other major studios, the NOOK Video catalog will offer something for everyone in the family to enjoy, including Disney-Pixar’s Brave and Toy Story 3, Marvel’s The Avengers, 21 Jump Street, Awkward, The Artist, Breaking Bad, Dora the Explorer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Spartacus, Magic City, The Walking Dead, True Blood®, Game of Thrones®, Harry Potter movies, The Dark Knight, The Hangover and many more. Videos that are streamed and downloaded from the NOOK Store will be stored safely and securely in the NOOK Cloud™, so NOOK Video content can be enjoyed on NOOKs and other devices via soon-to-launch free NOOK Video apps. As with the NOOK Reading apps, NOOK Video apps will seamlessly work together so customers can pick up watching right where they left off on any of their connected devices. NOOK Video will also integrate a customer’s compatible physical DVD and Blu-ray Disc purchases and digital video collection across their devices through UltraViolet™. Customers will soon be able to easily link their UltraViolet accounts to the NOOK Cloud allowing them to view their previously and newly purchased UltraViolet-enabled movies and TV shows across NOOK devices and NOOK Video apps, as well as through third party applications. In addition to purchasing a digital version via NOOK Video, customers can shop for DVDs and Blu-ray discs with the UltraViolet logo in Barnes & Noble and other retail stores, add them to their digital collection, and instantly watch compatible titles from the NOOK Cloud to enjoy wherever they go and however they choose.
The revamped Nook video service for home network theaters is larger move into the multi-media market. In fact the company is also giving customers who buy a DVD or Blu-ray access to a digital copy on the Nook app. However given that UltraViolet hasn't made much progress even with Amazon on board it remains to be seen how successful the venture will be. Do you own a Nook tablet? Would you use the Nook video service for home network theaters, let us know in the comments below.
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