IBM Killed the Video Store By John Leyden Posted: 09/09/2002 at 17:54 GMT IBM is supplying the technology for an upcoming online movie rental service backed by five major Hollywood studios. Movielink, a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros, will offer films for download to broadband users in the US. IBM is to providing managed hosting services, including systems operations and network management. Movielink should launch in Q4 this year. It will use the Internet as a distribution channel, delivering films initially to consumers' PCs and later also to other Internet-connected devices...