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CanWest “Berrycast” video quality will be “as good as an iPod”

TORONTO – If you thought clicking thumbs on BlackBerrys during business meetings was annoying, now Kevin Newman is going to be making appearances in them. Saying the video quality is iPod-like, CanWest MediaWorks will begin making its content available to Blackberry users beginning this month. Sixty to 90 second clips of Global National will be the first of many "berry casts" the company has planned, CanWest Interactive president Arturo Duran told www.cartt.ca today. Following the news, the company will make Entertainment Tonight Canada available and is looking into packaging sports content, "like plays of the day," as well, he added. "We're...