Posts Tagged with ‘download’

Growing Demand In UK For Digital Film Downloads

Paul Glazowski

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 [...]

BBC To Open Vast Video And Audio Archive Online

Paul Glazowski

One million hours of television and radio programming provided on-demand via the Web. That?s the BBC?s plan. The media colossus intends for an archive which will include many of its new and old recordings to be opened to the public if a trial to selected 20,000 UK-based individuals proves successful.
?Successful? can mean a lot of things, of course, but we presume they?re looking to see if such a catalogue is something even desired by the population (the trial is similar [...]

Goombah.com - Music Search and Discovery

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Looking for new music to listen to that once discovered, you can actually download and keep for free? Goombah, a site that analyzes your music taste based on your iTunes library, just launched their Radio Free Goombah service. This allows you to download songs to play anywhere and post anywhere in widget form. They also just signed a deal with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, adding even more songs for users to download for free.
Now, Goombah has 7 million tracks [...]

Qflix - Now That is 2.0!

Phil Butler

I have been reading all day long to find something worthy for our community. Well I found something at CNN.com, which may interest everyone! Hollywood studios have finally signed off on a new licensing/technology arrangement that will allow people more access to burning DVD’s and movies over the Internet. Sonic Solutions Inc. is showcasing Qflix in Las Vegas January 8-12. Qflix is a new system for adding a standard digital lock to DVD’s, which will enable users to burn DVD’s from computer or at [...]

Another Video Service in Beta You’ll Actually Want to See

Paul Glazowski

People have been buying dual-cored powerful computing awesomeness for over a year now. Chipsets from AMD and Intel have been publicized to hold supreme number-crunching might, but sadly, their prowess for processing the newest in high-def content has gone untested by the majority of PC users. Until now.
Zudeo, a product created by the folks responsible for the Java-based torrent application Azureus, is simple. It’s a repository for anything HD. HD is a Web 2.0 fan fetish. It’s video that puts [...]