• Reuters, Monday, September 15, 2008 10:30 AM

A group of media companies is planning to build a digital locale where consumers can safely store their digital video content and access it anywhere in the world.

The consortium of Hollywood studios, retailers, service providers, electronics makers and IT companies, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, wants digital devices and Web sites to work together smoothly and wants "lockers" where consumers' digital video purchases would be stored for ready access, similar to email accounts.

The consortium also wants new rules that allow consumers to copy content onto household devices and to burn their content to physical media, DECE president Mitch Singer says. Further details about the "uniform digital media experience" will be released at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

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