Posts Tagged with ‘digital’

An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films.
Why interesting? Why predictable?
Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great catalogues of titles of all genres, a la Netflix (albeit operated entirely over the Internet), as it would require one to perform fewer functions to enjoy items [...]

Earlier this week we touched a bit upon the topic of Amazon?s debut of its own e-book reader, dubbed Kindle, focusing a good deal on the general stuff concerning the item. You know, how the device would presumably do in an era still mostly averse to electronic books; whether it?s selling point of ?free? wireless 3G access will make it a hit; whether the experience is similar enough to the tried-and-true pulp-based paper equivalent to warrant the attention it?s so [...]

Yesterday, Amazon’s main man, Jeff Bezos, took the press for a ride to a predicted future where trees grow as they please, no longer threatened by pulp-hungry paper mills, and where the invention known as the e-book finally gets the acclaim it’s been due.
That is, if such critical celebration is even warranted. Which is somewhat difficult to say definitively at the moment. Difficult for me to say, anyway.
Why? It all has to do with the medium – meaning [...]

Last month we brought you word that Flickr would be launching “geotag”-centric upgrades.
One upgrade would be a new, more enhanced world map, enabling easier access to the world of photographs – now numbered at two-billion-plus – uploaded to the website’s servers. The photo service also claimed to be near the release of something called Flickr Places, which would enable one to limit searches to specific locations and see a variety of information deemed relevant to a particular [...]

I can’t honestly call myself a devout fan of the world of comics – you know, the one populated by the likes of Spider Man and the Silver Surfer – but I can certainly understand why the realm of superheroes and thought bubbles invokes the sort of passion many people across the globe convey for the many stories written thus far in both piecemeal and graphic novel form.
So I bring you, the comic devotees of the Profy readership, news of [...]

Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]