Netflix has signed a new licensing agreement with Disney-ABC, adding tons of new content to their Watch Instantly streaming service.

For the first time ever, Disney has added ABC Family content to the streaming library.

Newer first-run content will be available 15 days after initial telecast.

Part of the new agreement are "prior season episodes of current ABC hit series "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives" and, for the first time on Netflix, "Brothers & Sisters."

Furthermore, Netflix will have all seasons of "Scrubs," "Lost," Ugly Betty" and "Reaper."

From the Disney Channel comes more episodes of "Phineas and Ferb," "Good Luck Charlie," "The Suite Life on Deck" and "Wizards of Waverly Place."

Finally, from ABC Family comes the catalogs of "Greek," "Make It or Break It," "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and "Melissa & Joey."

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Prima Cinema, a new start-up, wants to bring movies to your home movie theater the day that movie launches in theaters, but it won't be cheap.

The company will charge a one-time $20,000 fee to install the digital-delivery system, and each new movie will cost $500.

Prima says it has $5 million in venture capital from Universal and Best Buy and hopes to begin delivering movies to customers in the Q4 2011.

The company has high expectations, as well. Prima wants to install the delivery system in 250,000 homes by 2015, however, executives in Hollywood seem to see that number as a lot lower.

Other execs see it differently: "While this is a niche market, there is a chance for significant upside," says Adam Fogelson, chairman of Universal Pictures (via WSJ). "And precisely because it is a niche market, that upside should come without harming any of our existing partners or revenue streams."

Prima CEO Jason Pang adds: "We're not here to replace anything. We are trying to create new revenue streams for studios and new viewing opportunities for moviegoers."

The movie delivery company has not yet signed on with any studios, but is actively in talks with all the majors and major independents.

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Stuart Hughes, the brand behind such excess as the $3 million iPhone and the £200,000 PlayStation 3 has gone prehistoric this week, designing the "iPhone 4 History Edition."

The iPhone 4 History Edition will be encrusted by diamonds, feature a 65 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth and polished meteoric stone from the same prehistoric era.

Reads the description:

On the basis of the bezel having a massive 8.5ct 'IF' flawless diamonds with a rear platinum and diamond Apple logo, the iphone 4 HISTORY edition is the worlds 1st with a rear section structured from a 65 million year old T-REX tooth and meteoric stone. I have worked before with Dinosaur in the past but I wanted to go fierce on this one hence we sort a tooth, doesn't come more fierce than that , we then splintered and shaved the tooth into the pre polished meteoric stone both of which were sort from Arizona in the US.

Stuart Hughes is selling the iPhone 4 History Edition for £39,995 in limited quantities, only ten have been made.

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