Lycos Unveils New Cinema Video Community, Adding Online VOD Rentals to Its Ad-Supported Service, Bringing Enhanced Social Viewing Experience to Premium Paid Content

WALTHAM, Mass., May 5 /PRNewswire/ — Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com ), a leading provider of social publishing, media and search services, today introduced the new Lycos Cinema (http://cinema.lycos.com ) adding video on demand (VOD) rentals to its existing ad-supported Lycos Cinema community, greatly expanding the interactive social video viewing experience. With the new Lycos Cinema, users now have the option of watching and interacting around premium rentals and free VOD ad-supported film and episodic television titles. Lycos's patent-pending synchronous Watch & Interact technology now enables multiple users to view the same video at the same time with anyone, anywhere, at anytime–all while chatting and socializing.