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YouTube, Time Warner Strike Deal

Google's YouTube video site has hammered out a deal with Time Warner to show clips from the media conglomerate's cable networks, TV shows and movies. The arrangement follows the same rough template as deals YouTube has forged with Sony and Disney: the content providers get to embed their own video player within YouTube and control ad sales.

But you won't be seeing full-length shows or movies from Time Warner on the video site--it's saving those for cable companies that play along with its "TV Everywhere" plan. If you want to see the whole thing, you'll have to watch them on your TV set or via Web experiments like the one Comcast is trying out for its subscribers.

YouTube has been trying to get networks and studios to give up full-length stuff and hasn't had a lot of luck, at least not compared to the offerings at Hulu.

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