19 month ago
plasticbag : Joost has got a bunch more funding, including some from traditional broadcasters... - I'm sort of conflicted about Joost. It's a beautiful bit of work - so good in fact that I think it might actually thrive in the marketplace despite the fact I think it's sort of slightly the wrong model for navigation and exploration of media...
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plasticbag : It's not every day you see a brand new sort of interface on the web, but that's what you get at oreseg.com - It's an online video portal with a difference. Not sure what I think about it, but the interface is certainly thought-provoking...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Very much on the rumour mill - but I'm sceptical about it's truth: Are last.fm about to be bought by Viacom for $450 million - I've said it for ages that someone should try and buy them. I heard rumours in the past that they'd turned down overtures from a few large companies. They're certainly a huge potential player over the next few decades...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : There's an interesting article on BBC News about music executives and their frustration with DRM systems - It's an encouraging sign when people who work for record companies believe that DRM (at least in its current forms) is getting in the way of people buying music rather than saving their industries...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : TechCrunch's social music overview is pretty light, but interesting nonetheless... - There's a few names here I haven't heard of. iLike is a nice little plugin I've been using for a while but which has very little traction in my communities. Last.fm remains my staple music community...
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Colbert on Demand... - Let's hope that this frankly astonishingly awesome site is somehow legal and produced with the permission of the Colbert people, because it would be a terrible shame for it to be shut down...
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27 month ago
plasticbag : "Apple takes a gamble: so you want to watch films on your iPod?" - The Guardian reports on Apple's incursion into the video on demand and digital sales space. Pretty interesting stuff.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Amazon.com Unbox Video - Amazon have launched their first on-demand TV download service and have called it Amazon Unbox. It only works in the US and it only works on Windows XP. Not sure what I think about it.
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plasticbag : An interesting post on 'Why You Tube works' - I actually pretty much buy this - I've never understood why advertisers (for example) so infrequently put their ads online for people to talk about and link to. You Tube has solved this, and I suspect is busily making a lot of advertiser's lives a lot eas
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too - "Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models."
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36 month ago
Andy Baio : Sloncek's story of the Suprnova shutdown - a year ago today [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : what really happened to suprnova
plasticbag : The guy from Suprnova explains why the site went offline a year ago... - He tells the story quickly, but it sounds like quite a scary situation to find yourself in. Still, it also seems like the story ended fairly well. I wonder what happens next.
Nelson Minar : SuprNova story - sloncek's story of police, equiment seizure, etc (via Waxy)
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38 month ago
plasticbag : "Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You’re In Luck!" - I'm really interested that Apple decided to use software to get people to buy a new iMac rather that putting the software on every computer that could run it. Although clearly, people are excited enough to want it on all their computers...
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Ars Technica - the definitive home for comprehensive reviews of tech stuff - has a stab at the Video iPod (and generally likes what it sees) - Personally, I'm looking at the return of the classic form factor in the iPod Nano and wondering if Apple are looking to gradually discontinue the larger sized iPods
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39 month ago
Andy Baio : TiVo adds copyright protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - this is a terrible move; I feel personally betrayed as an evangelist of their product since 2000
jkottke : TiVo hates its customers - TiVo's new OS adds content "protection", which means if the copyright holder of Seinfeld wants your TiVo to delete the show after a week whether you've watched it or not, that's what it's going to do. I love my TiVo and I'm currently suffering from outrag [via]
veen : TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - A bug? Maybe, but a also a glimpse of a DRMed future...
Nelson Minar : More TiVo stupidity - Matt breaks it down (via Marc)
plasticbag : TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - Lots of discussion about this one. Basically it's a PVR with rights controls imposed from the studios and broadcasters - designed for pay-per-view stuff...
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45 month ago
cameron : KOMPAKT-MP3 - Kompakt starts their own mp3 site, €1.29 per track
plasticbag : The KOMPAKT record label has a site where you can buy high bit-rate unencrypted MP3s of their output - I can particularly recommend Hundred Million Light Years by KaitO - it's a wonderful seven minutes of twinkling explorations in noise. It's nice to find a new source of music to get on with...
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