AP Sources: YouTube to offer online movie rentals

Dan Rayburn submits: Talk about a crowded industry. In addition to BestBuy (

YouTube is owned by Google, which is also set to make a play in the lucrative music-streaming market, but reportedly has a negotiating team separate from that of its parent company.

Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc began talks earlier this year to stream films owned by EPIX, which is

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YouTube on Friday began letting people in Britain rent movies for viewing online at the Google-owned video-sharing website."We've got some cracking films to keep everyone entertained through the upcoming winter months and beyond," YouTube business product manager Matteo Vallone said in a blog post announcing the launch in Britain.More than a thousand full-length films from studios in Hollywood or Britain are available for streaming online as rentals at youtube.com/movies, according to Vallone.

Compete submits: Amazon (AMZN) created some buzz last week when it announced that it will throw in free online video streaming rights to about 5,000 TV and movie titles to all subscribers of its Amazon Prime service.

Trefis submits: Redbox is a division of Coinstar (CSTR) that offers movie rentals via DVD kiosks. Redbook recently announced plans to launch an online streaming service in competition with Netflix (NFLX), which is well established in the streaming video market.