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Premium Distributed Content from Apple?

I’ve been thinking about the iPod 5G and the video capability in iTunes and the ITMS and considering the success announced this week believe that it’s quite possible for things to accelerate much more rapidly towards a new network model. … Continue reading

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Apple sells 1 Million Videos

“Selling 1 million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests that there is a market for legal video downloads,” Jobs said. “Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on … Continue reading

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MCE vs. TiVo??

Thomas Hawk pointed me to an interesting piece written by Alex Raiano at the TiVo Blog comparing MCE to TiVo. First, thanks for blogging on TiVo (Alex specifically), but what the hell are you thinking with this?  MCE certainly has … Continue reading

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Simultaneously Releasing Movies

The idea of a movie being available on DVD or VOD the same day it’s released in a theater is very attractive to me.  There have been plenty of times in the past few years when I was not able … Continue reading

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Apple lobs grenade into Microsoft media center camp

APC Magazine’s Dan Warne reckons Apple is about to deftly round-house kick Microsoft’s media center strategy for six. First Apple leaves a mysterious header on the Mac Mini motherboard for a non-existent iPod dock connector. Then it brings out media … Continue reading

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3ivX your existing movies, compatible for iPod Video (No recompression!)

Gotta love this… an “easy” way to convert those larger higher res files you might find through certain non-ITMS channels for use on the iPod. Convert your existing movies(Divx, Xvid) into iPod video format without having to re-encode the file. … Continue reading

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Participatory Culture Foundation

This sounds awesome and basically what I was talking about earlier today except it will be done by the consumer… not the broadcast networks. That said, if Downhill Battle is successful at getting this software distributed on release, it would … Continue reading

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Sony’s Digital Film Store

This sounds very cool… though I wonder how compatible it will be with the PSP which certainly supports “memory cards” as the Memory Stick supports DMR through Magic Gate. I think the challenge for Sony will be that Windows Media, … Continue reading

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Hitchhikers Guide

The Official Preview is finally live…

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Collecting movies

Mark Cuban has an interesting post on the legalities of collecting movies and how perhaps Hollywood might consider some changes in release schedules. So Hollywood has a choice. They can change their businessmodel of windowed distribution of movies and significantly … Continue reading

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I, Robot

Just got back from I, Robot at the Sony Metreon here in San Francisco… While there seems to be some controversy in how closely the movie follows the philosophy of Asimov, I really enjoyed it. As I recently mentioned I … Continue reading

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Starz to Launch Online Movie Service With RealNetworks

Starz to Launch Online Movie Service With Real: The service will offer about 100 movies for download every month, and unlimited streaming options, for $12 a month, writes Ali and adds, “The deal is exclusive for both Starz and RealNetworks … Continue reading

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Anchorman: Sky Rockets In Flight

While you might have to wait until next month for Anchorman, you can enjoy a preview of the cast singing a cover of the Starland Vocal Band’s Afternoon Delight… definitely worth the click! Gothamist: Sky Rockets In Flight

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The Day After Tomorrow

Not a bad flick at all… The story was a tad sappy, but the effects were cool. Even if it pushed the limits of reason and logic, it’s a solid popcorn summer movie. It is definitely chilling to see the … Continue reading

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Kill Bill director aims for Bond

Just caught this off the BBC… “I’ve always wanted to do it. I bumped into Pierce Brosnan and we talked about it. He liked the idea,” the cult film director said. The Pulp Fiction director said he was interested in … Continue reading

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The Incredibles

Be sure you watch in Incredisize (full screen) if you have iTunes 4.5 installed. The trailer for The Incredibles is online. [~stevenf]

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Kill Bill

I have yet to see Kill Bill as it did not make the cut for ReelMoms so we’ll have to find some time for the DVD… how can one envision bringing together with an almost comic book cinematic style, kung … Continue reading

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Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

Premiere Magazine has released a list of what its editors think are the hundred greatest movie characters of all time…. [Blogcritics]

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snoozebutton

Snoozebutton, your discerning guide to modern culture has been brought back from the dead… My buddy Sandro is one of the primary authors so give it a read!

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Out of Hollywood and into Video Games…

NYT has an interesting article running about movie directors wanting to get in on game direction. They cite the Wachowski brothers, Ridley Scott, John Woo and Peter Jackson all pushing what were previous career (and earning) limits. The Wachowski brothers … Continue reading

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