Posts Tagged with ‘film’

The last 365.2425 days - give or take - have comprised a pretty remarkable period of time. Everything in the tech space has appeared supercharged since that day of new beginnings past. Whether you look at advancements made in root technologies that have enabled the transmission of higher and higher quality media over the Web, or more singular accomplishments like new utilitarian services among the likes of office software built both for local and remote use and backup options that [...]

What seemed to grow more and more apparent throughout the last few months in advance of Macworld Expo ’08 has finally been outed by big media.
The Financial Times reported early yesterday (in its trademark salmon-colored pages) that Apple and 20th Century Fox, a entity held by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, inked a deal that would grant iTunes users the option to rent films produced by the studio. The news of the impending partnership comes in anticipation of [...]

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 year – in spring, or Q2, to be more precise – the world witnessed the debut of MySpaceTV's first serial, called “Prom Queen,” which was broken into 90-second-episode snippets and ran for north of a month's time.
And just a week ago, the social network announced the launch of its second episodic production, “Roommates,” an ongoing, scripted, viewer-influenced drama occurring over the course of 45 weekdays.
Now, MySpace has made known its intentions to go even further into the realm [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]