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called the launch “a big accomplishment for the industry,” saying UltraViolet “offers a compelling, easy-to-use way to access your movies from the cloud and on whatever device you want to use.” Although it’s “still early,” Bewkes said consumers were “downloading and streaming in very large numbers” and “more than 2 million accounts have been created” so far. “It took five months for the first million registrations and then we added a million more in the last four weeks,” he said. The company’s HBO Go app was recently added to the Xbox 360 and Samsung connected TVs, Bewkes said. “We'll be announcing additional platform launches in the next few months,” he said. So far, “the vast majority of users have accessed Go online, or on tablets” or other mobile devices, he said. “We expect to see even higher usage as it becomes widely accessible on connected TVs.” Although it was “still early days” for the app, the CEO said Time Warner was seeing “encouraging signs that HBO Go will have a significant positive impact on our business over time.” Consumers using the app were “watching HBO more than they used to and 93 percent say Go makes them more loyal to HBO,” he said. The company was also “seeing a bigger marketing push from many of our affiliates,” and HBO is “now better positioned and promoted than it has been in years.” Time Warner revenue for Q1 inched up 4 percent year-over-year to $7 billion. Profit slipped to $583 million, from $653 million. Giving the results a lift was the company’s Film and TV Entertainment division, where revenue grew to $2.8 billion from $2.6 billion. The growth was largely driven by a “stronger theatrical slate” and higher TV licensing revenue, the company said. The dropoff in consumer spending on DVDs was also being “partially offset by the licensing of theatrical” and TV content to subscription video-on-demand providers, it said. Networks revenue inched up to $3.6 billion from $3.5 billion.