Category Archives: movies

The entertainment business just doesn’t get it

Let’s face it. It’s easy to acquire video content these days regardless of whether you subscribe to a particular tier from your cable company or even whether you live in the country. Regardless of this the content companies still do … Continue reading

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Disney Digital Copy

I just activated my first Disney Digital Copy for Wall-E and I was very pleasantly surprised by the relative ease of the process. I could see my parents easily navigating this process without questions and that’s a definite win on … Continue reading

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Not linking with Bravia Internet Link

As exciting as the possibility for Day and Date releases are within the current test by Sony is incredibly frustrating. We have a number of Bravia LCD sets in our house yet none currently have the $299 Bravia Internet link … Continue reading

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AppleTV Gets Day and Date with DVD Release

Gizmodo confirms Apple will be releasing movies from the major studios on the same day to AppleTV as DVD. I honestly prefer the quality of AppleTV over my Cablevision on-demand system and like the extra functionality of portability to my … Continue reading

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DVD Day and Date? No Thanks!

NewTeeVee has a bit on the alleged potential for Day and Date for VOD with DVD releases. Raising the price of HD movies on VOD and releasing them the same day they come out on DVD would be a boon … Continue reading

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All Nokia Media

I decided last week that I wanted to simplify my mobile media experience and ordered a 6GB microSD card so i could my N95-3 and N810 for evrything instead of also carrying my iPhone just for a few albums and … Continue reading

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Nokia Media Transfer is now out!

Thanks to Charlie at Lifeblog for the tip… Nokia Media Transfer is a new app that will let Mac users connect to their N-Series and transfer Pictures, Videos, Podcasts, Music and files between computer and mobile device! Awesome! I’m downloading … Continue reading

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Apple TV Delayed!

There’s quite a bit of buzz today regarding Apple’s announcement that the Apple TV will be delayed until at least mid-March. It seems unlikely that a bug is the cause since it was supposed to have shipped this week to … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on the new video services

I’ve been playing a bit with Joost and Zudeo and am am quite impressed with the overall quality as well as speed in which things are happening. I should mention that I use a (almost) 30 / 5 Mbps down … Continue reading

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Canola 1.0 beta2 ready for mass trial

Simply point your browser to http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/ and have fun. They are using the latest installer tech for Maemo, so by simply clicking the install link, you’ll have the application repository automatically added which makes everything quite nice… Once the repository … Continue reading

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Have you seen the Oscar nominees?

The PirateBay has made it easy for you to catch up. One thing about those guys, they are not subtle. Technorati Tags: Pirate Bay

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Steve Jobs loathes DRM just like rest of us

This is simply awesome. From Steve Jobs… Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell … Continue reading

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Wal-Mart and Studios in Film Deal but they won’t play in my house

Today the company will introduce a partnership with all of the six major Hollywood studios — Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal — to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site (www.walmart.com/videodownloads), … Continue reading

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Boing Boing: MPAA: it’s OK to copy movies if you keep them in a vault

A classic double standard… whatever they need to work for them. The MPAA is the worst of the worst. MPAA: it’s OK to copy movies if you keep them in a vault During the Q&A at last night’s screening of … Continue reading

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You may begin laughing now

Borat – the soundtrack.

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Amazon.com Unbox Video:

Amazon.com Unbox Video:: No Macs allowed. Technorati Tags: Amazon, Apple, Movies, Marketing

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Scanner Darkly Preview

Scanner Darkly Preview: The first 24 minutes of Richard Linklater’s Scanner Darkly is available to view courtesy of IGN. Technorati Tags: Movies

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Networked DVR

When I first read the headline I got very excited, but then I realized this is not what I was hoping for… NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC.N) said on Monday it plans to introduce a … Continue reading

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Big Networks limited view of VOD

So now that the iTMS has announced a successful foray into video it seems the impact has been realized and other deals are starting to flow in, which is great news … in theory. In Januaray, if you are a … Continue reading

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The Future of Video Distribution

I previously stated I thought that the aggregator rather than the direct relationship was the way to go, and I still believe that to be the case.  Even Jeremy Allaire, who is definitely smarter than I am, concedes any direct … Continue reading

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