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What they're not telling you about Apple's 'same day as DVD' deal

I first wrote about this last week in WinInfo Short Takes, but an article by David Carr in today's New York Times once again blurs the lines of reality when it comes to Apple's recent deal with movie companies. In this deal, Apple gets the right to sell movies digitally via iTunes on the same...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-05-2008
Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release

Apple PR : Apple today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-01-2008
Dear MSN Music customer ...

As one of the few people who actually purchased music from Microsoft's long-dead MSN Music service, I received the following email this week (the pertinent bits are bolded for emphasis): MSN Music is constantly striving to provide you, our user, with the most compelling music experience that we can...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-24-2008
Unconfirmed: XP lives on; Confirmed: Zune and Audible compatibility (Updated)

Given the state of the tech news world of late (prognosis: poor), I want to be very clear about these "news" items. They're unconfirmed. Each arrived via email. I've done absolutely no research at all--not even ten seconds worth--to confirm whether they're real. Therefore, take...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-18-2008
Amazon Gains Share of Shrinking Paid Music Market

NYT's Saul Hansell writes another great blog post , this time about Amazon's recent gains in the digital music market: NPD’s annual survey of Internet users found that 10 percent of the music they acquired last year came from paid downloads. That is a big increase from 7 percent in 2006...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-18-2008
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

This is kind of an interesting tip , courtesy of the Google Operating System blog: An interesting side-effect of YouTube's recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser's...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-14-2008
Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs

And speaking of Apple TV today, it looks like Blockbuster is considering an Apple TV competitor : Apple TV is getting some competition from Blockbuster. The home video giant is developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets and is expected to announce the offering sometime this month...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-11-2008
Video on Flickr

A New York Times article reminded me that Flickr had added video support. Here's the deal, according to Flickr : What is video on Flickr? Video on Flickr is going to be defined by our incredible, diverse, far-flung and fabulously talented members. Some answers that we’ve come up with: A long...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-10-2008
Adobe Media Player

Adobe : Adobe Media Player software provides control and flexibility to view what you want, when you want — whether online or offline. You can queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-09-2008
Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital

The New York Times has an interesting article this morning about Amazon's move to digital content via Audible (audio books), Amazon Unbox (movies and TV shows), Amazon MP3 (unprotected music), and the Kindle (eBooks). There's just one thing: I don't quite get the title of the article. If...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-07-2008

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