Archive for January, 2010
Finally the start of Pay-Per-View films on-line
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Currently if you like me, don’t own a television, since most of the content rubbish, and you want to see a film at home you have two chooses, either you buy/rent a DVD (assuming you have a laptop with a DVD drive) or download a poor quality pirated film. Since it’s a hassle going to the DVD shop and you can’t get the latest film, most people tend to download pirated versions.
However hopefully this is about to change.
Google has announced that starting this weekend, YouTube will start charging around $5 to watch one of five films.
The films include The Cove, an underwater adventure about dolphin capturing in Japan; Bass Ackwards, which chronicles an improvised road trip; Children of Invention, about two Bostonian orphans; One Too Many Mornings, a "coming of age comedy about two guys who are too old to be coming of age"; and Homewrecker, a comedy about a locksmith. The filmmakers will determine the exact asking price for viewing each movie, but all will be in the range of $5.
Once of the major barriers to entry any legit company faces if they want to show films on-line is that of the distribution company, the people who get films in cinemas, won’t distribute films to cinemas unless they get exclusive rights for a six or so months (that’s why new releases take a long time to come out on DVD) at that point, the rights get sold to DVD produces, then after a chunk of time, to the TV companies.
This makes the move by Sundance Film Festival and filmmakers a very brave move and a very welcome one, it effectively means that it is unlikely you will see any of them at a cinema.
YouTube execs told USA Today the move is helping independent filmmakers find distribution avenues for their films. The movies will be shown without ads, which would be an aesthetic disaster for any director who chose to put his creation online.
A Digest of what I did on January 19th
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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Listened to Knives Out – Radiohead.
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Listened to Black Star – Radiohead.
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Listened to Animal Nitrate – Suede.
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A Digest of what I did on January 18th http://bit.ly/7JKoVF [Scott_Herbert]
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France in fresh Explorer warning http://bit.ly/4xoWot [Scott_Herbert]
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RT @BieberSoCal: #ihaveadream that @justinbieber will RT me, one day. come on do it for MLK please justin? <3 [Scott_Herbert]
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#ihaveadream that TwitterBrite will be popular and sell lots of copies. [Scott_Herbert]
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RT @TiffaniBear: My dad always used to say, "If you’re falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose [Scott_Herbert]
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Fox News: “Confirmed. Apple Tablet, iPhone 4.0 Software and New iLife on January 27th” http://viigo.im/27tJ [Scott_Herbert]
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Podcast: David Allen – Goal Setting http://viigo.im/27tW [Scott_Herbert]
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Everything You Need to Know About Windows Mobile 7 http://viigo.im/27Gk [Scott_Herbert]
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Nexus one and droid are the iPhone killer http://post.ly/JO0S [Scott_Herbert]
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Published Nexus one and droid are the iPhone killer.
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Nexus one and droid are the iPhone killer
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010It looks like it’s all over for the iPhone.
A recent report by ChangeWave Research, looking at both the current market share and what consumers where planning on buying over the next year, suggests that Android phones (including both Motorola’s Droid and Googles own Nexus one) Usage has Increased by over 200% in the past three months, and that before the Nexus one was released.
To some extend that’s not surprising, Apple haven’t released a new handset for a while so the iPhone looks old hat to throes looking to upgrade their phones. But what’s Apples response to this?
To release a new iPhone? Nope a new OS, a Slate computer and an upgrade to iLife and while the me iPhone OS may help improve sales, the handset it’s self it starting to look long in the tooth.
A Digest of what I did on January 18th
Monday, January 18th, 2010
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Get real-time content on your posts with Smoopr. http://bit.ly/4Td6mI [Scott_Herbert]
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Violent games worse than porn http://bit.ly/6pDrU5 [Scott_Herbert]
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Get real-time content on your posts with Smoopr. [Scott_Herbert]
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Violent games worse than porn [Scott_Herbert]
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A Smart bear – How I got 6000 RSS subscribers in 12 months http://post.ly/IQX2 [Scott_Herbert]
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Listened to Opus 40 – Mercury Rev.
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Samsung 32GB microSD and 64GB embedded module announced http://viigo.im/248T [Scott_Herbert]
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Productive Geek Is a Forum for Flexing Your Productivity Muscles [Productivity] http://viigo.im/24wx [Scott_Herbert]
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Tell us what you don’t like http://post.ly/IaWL [Scott_Herbert]
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Published Tell us what you don’t like.
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Published 9 ways to help the Haiti Earthquake victims.
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9 ways to help the Haiti Earthquake victims http://post.ly/IbwI [Scott_Herbert]
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Twitter app store Oneforty tests commerce platform, jumps to 2,300 apps http://viigo.im/24UT [Scott_Herbert]
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About to purge most of the 900 people I follow who don’t follow me back. [Scott_Herbert]
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Monitor Google Services from the System Tray http://viigo.im/25G4 [Scott_Herbert]
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Geodata test, please ignore [Scott_Herbert]
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OK… maybe this time… [Scott_Herbert]
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When it comes to file-sharing lawsuits the UK remains calm http://viigo.im/26lV [Scott_Herbert]
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How To Be An Entrepreneur http://viigo.im/2728 [Scott_Herbert]
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Multiple minds http://viigo.im/272v [Scott_Herbert]
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Am having a look at using The Twit Cleaner http://is.gd/6tkUN to clean the garbage from twitter [Scott_Herbert]
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