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Xbox 360 Gets The CW App With Full Episodes Available Shortly After They Air
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With the recent release of the Pizza Hut application on the Xbox 360, we’re sure you’re planning on ordering a nice pizza this evening and curling up with your console to watch some quality programming. The problem is, what should you watch? Sure – you could watch Netflix, Flixster, WWE or Redbox, but what if you’re itching to catch the latest episode of your favorite program from the CW? You’re in luck as the CW has just announced you can watch its programming on your Xbox 360 starting today.
That’s right, Shawn – you can now watch such quality programming as Supernatural, The Carrie Diaries and The Vampire Diaries right from your Xbox 360. The CW Xbox 360 app will stream full episodes of their programming the day after it airs on network TV, and best of all is you don’t need to validate your cable or satellite subscription to access the app. All you need to do is be an Xbox Live Gold member and you could be enjoying teen dramas like every other 30-something year old that you know.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Flixster App Launched On Xbox 360 With Support For UltraViolet Videos, EPIX Launches On PS3, PS Plus Subscribers Get A Free Movie Every Week, 
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Sep 25
The October 5th edition of Entertainment Weekly has a built-in Twitter feed (really)
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Youth-oriented TV drama factory The CW is hoping that Entertainment Weekly readers are interested in taking Twitter from smartphones and computers to the printed page — er, at least a printed page with an LCD insert attached. The October 5th issue of EW features a miniature LCD display with the six most recent posts to its Twitter feed (@CW_Network), as well as a “short video showing stars of new CW shows,” according to The New York Times. Yes, seriously — an LCD screen with some form of internet connection embedded directly into copies of a physical magazine. “Emily Owens M.D.” — a new show on The CW — is the first to receive direct promo treatment via the magazine’s LCD display. It’s unclear if all issues of the Oct. 5 edition will contain the embedded video screen (only 50,000 issues of a 2009 EW issue ran an embedded Pepsi video ad, for instance).
CW executive VP Rick Haskins said the company’s social media team overseeing the project will only filter out “profanity or other unacceptable language.” As for negative tweets, however, those are fair game. Not that we’d encourage such things, but this setup sounds all too ripe for exploitation by the denizens of the internet. Do with the information as you will, unscrupulous readers.
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