Posts Tagged with ‘movies’

One of the companies debuting a new product today at the DEMOfall event is RealNetworks which demonstrates a new DVD copying software RealDVD. Priced at $30, the application is intended to make copies of movies from DVDs to PC - claiming to actually do it legally.
The claim is based on the fact that when copying a DVD the software actually creates a secure copy of the entire disk, even preserving the CSS encryption.
It takes 10 to 40 minutes and 4 [...]

Not a week has passed since I assembled a list of predictions for 2008 for your amusement, and already we find two well-known corporate entities deliver an official press release proving one postulation to be quite on-target.
Indeed, both Netflix and LG have teamed together to form a sort of digital download alliance, giving something of a morsel of credence to the article published here in Profy last Saturday. The arrangement the two partners in cinematic deliverance [...]

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 [...]

TorrentSpy, once a stalwart participant of BitTorrent communications on the Web, found today that its future was no more. News widely emerged this morning of the website’s defeat amidst the powers of the MPAA in court. The judge presiding over the case involving the link farm “made a default ruling in favor of the MPAA…(saying) the site’s operators had tampered with evidence.”
Long a popular post for links to peer-to-peer file transfers, TorrentSpy first hit a rough patch when news 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 [...]

LocateTV takes Web 2.0 simplicity to heart. It's beta incarnation offers no forums, no social networking aspect, no profiles, no comment section or reviews by other television junkies. Normally, the lack of these features would turn me off completely, but the one thing it does do, find television shows based on your location, it does very, very well.
LocateTV will tell you where your favorite shows and reruns are playing, no matter where you are or what provider is used there. [...]

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 [...]