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Jessica Simpson track is NOT DRM free

July 23, 2006

While the blogging world is falling all over itself in praise of Yahoo!’s release of the so-called “DRM-free” Jessica Simpson track (I won’t even comment on the fact that the track is from Jessica Simpson, oy), I think that the music industry is indicating how desperate they are to break from the iTunes hegemony that [...]

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Monday Links

July 17, 2006

Movielink to allow movies transferred to DVD Didn’t they already do that? Maybe it was the other guys. Build your own iPod HiFiTwo in wall speakers, $200. Two dead Mac Classics, $25. Retro iPod HiFi, priceless. Yahoo! to the 9′sDaily video feature of the top 9 videos from the web. No podcast, so you gotta [...]

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Thursday Links

July 13, 2006

CinemaNow gets more funding $20mm should help… I thought bandwidth was free? GUBA inks deal with Sony These guys are on a roll. Efax: How not to treat your customers I had a free account cancelled for overuse. Apparently, their customer service isn’t so great, either. [via Daring Fireball] Looking back at Hotwired Hotwired rejoins [...]

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TEDTalks Video Podcasts

June 28, 2006

The TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is held every year in Monterey and attracts bigwigs from the various industries they represent. Occasionally, you’ll hear about what these luminaries talk about and present, but by and large, what’s talked about in Monterey, stays in Monterey. Until now, that is. TEDTalks is a series of presentations from [...]

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GUBA goes legit

June 26, 2006

Usenet and illegal video fans should be weeping today, GUBA has signed a deal with Warner Movies to distribute Warner’s videos day and date as the DVD releases. Rentals are available for $1.99 and purchases are 9.99 for catalog titles and 19.99 for new releases(that sounds really familiar). You gotta have a Windows XP or [...]

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Plaxo for the Mac – Loves yummy addresses

June 26, 2006

The short version – DO NOT USE PLAXO ON YOUR MAC! The long version – Ok, I know that Plaxo is evil, but I really wanted another way than .Mac (which isn’t evil, merely incompetent) to backup my address book online. I had never tried Plaxo when I was in the Windows world (like I [...]

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The D: All Things Digital

June 19, 2006

The Wall Street Journal released their report from the Walt Mossberg’s CEO love-in from a few weeks back. (FYI – “The D” is a small conference for executives from large companies and essentially is a series of discussions and interviews conducted by the Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.) Interviews include Bill Gates, “who showed off [...]

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Movie downloads compete with DVD

April 3, 2006

Movielink and CinemaNow announced today that they will have day and date releases with their DVD counterparts reports the Wall Street Journal this morning. Starting tomorrow with Brokeback Mountain, both companies will give users the ability to buy movies the same day they arrive on DVD. Both seem to limit what people can do with [...]

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Moviebeam relaunches

February 14, 2006

A number of stories this morning regarding the relaunch of Disney’s Moviebeam service in 29 markets this year. In a nutshell, Moviebeam is a hard drive based set top box that receives movies over unused television spectrum. The box ships with a 100 movies on the hard drive and about 10 movies are swapped out [...]

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What is Apple smoking?

February 7, 2006

It’s Tuesday morning, so what’s new for our pals at the iTunes Video Store? Looks like they bagged a big one – Showtime. It seems that premium cable didn’t want to be left out of the iTMS fun. This morning, Weeds, Fat Actress, and Sleeper Cell launched on iTMS with their first seasons available to [...]

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CBS selling Survivor on CBS.com

February 5, 2006

CBS going it alone will be selling new episodes of Survivor on CBS.com. Episodes will be $1.99 just like someone else we know, but they will expire after 24 hours after you download it. They’re using Windows Media 9.0, but not the version that is Mac compatible. While this is interesting, I do wonder how [...]

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Beavis vs. Cartman on iTMS

January 26, 2006

The announcements keep coming from our friends over at iTunes. Here’s a short list of everything added to iTMS: MTV – Beavis and Butthead, Jackass, Punk’d, Gauntlet 2, and more Nickelodeon – Spongebob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, Zoey 101 Comedy Central – South Park, Drawn Together, Best of Standup Looks like Apple must have signed [...]

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Oh, and one more thing…

January 24, 2006

Man, no sooner did this deal get done and an Disney’s newest large stockholder is already making some improvements on his investment. Wanna download some Disney shorts for your iPod? 10 new Disney shorts popped on iTMS this afternoon (maybe I should rename this blog iTMSWatch, I spend waaaay too much time there). Gotta hand [...]

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Ebert and Roeper, Munsters join iTunes

January 24, 2006

Not the most exciting new additions to iTMS, but Apple is furthering their offerings this morning with “Ebert and Roeper” and “The Munsters”. What is interesting here is pricing. While the episodes remain at the oh-so-simple $1.99, the first season of “The Munsters” (38 episodes) will cost you a whopping $54.99 yet the last 20 [...]

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Apple mea culpa?

January 19, 2006

Looks like the Postal Service video that everyone has been talking about went up on iTMS today. An apology from Apple and the video’s directors for blatantly ripping off the band? Only Apple knows for sure. View Preview View Mac Intel Inside Ad

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Battlestar Galactica Free on iTMS

December 22, 2005

Well, at least a summary of the first season and a half, but as far as I know, this is the first free video that Apple has posted. Seems like this might be a way to get folks hooked on BG and/or the concept of video downloads. So, if you wanna catch up on Battlestar [...]

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