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When I decided to turn myself into the Video Rebel — eschewing all cable and satellite TV as well as Blu-ray discs and DVDs — the one thing I figured I’d miss the most in my cable-shunning, disc-free experiment...
POSTED Tuesday, May 6, 2008
If you're the type of person who has no qualms with pirating all the music and movies you can get your hands on, you'll be really excited to hear about the Planex DigiJuke NAS. It's pretty much designed with the...
POSTED Monday, April 28, 2008
According to an industry study released by The NPD Group, 58% of the music acquired by consumers in the USA during 2007 wasn't paid for, with equal shares of the freeloader pie divided between peer to peer network sharing,...
POSTED Saturday, April 19, 2008
MySpace has just announced that its launching a music store that'll be stocked with DRM-free MP3s from three of the four major labels as well as loads of indie prints. The giant social networking site will be selling MP3s that...
POSTED Friday, April 4, 2008
In a unique new feature, the upcoming crime blockbuster Grand Theft Auto 4 will team up with Amazon to bring digital music distribution into the game. Since the music and radio stations have always been a huge and important part...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Last year when Steve Jobs announced Apple TV at Macworld 2007, I wasn't impressed. I expressed my displeasure at the fact that the media was basically giving a free pass to a product that I predicted would be an...
POSTED Thursday, February 7, 2008
Let's say you're ready to chuck your DVD player and make the jump to renting digital content from a box near your television. Congratulations! You've discovered Pay Per View. But PPV has few choices and even less flexibility: What...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Time Warner just launched a test of its new HBO on Broadband service, only available so far to residents of Wisconsin who are subscribers of Time Warner Cable, HBO and Road Runner broadband. It so happens that some of...
POSTED Thursday, January 31, 2008
What online site has the biggest authorized selection of music? Is it iTunes? Nope. Amazon's MP3 store? Wrong again. It's actually Last.fm, an online radio station that's managed to snag music from all four major labels as well as music...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
As expected, Apple announced it would offer movies for rental through its iTunes (they really need to think about renaming that) store, starting today. Steve Jobs said in his keynote that Apple has deals with all the major studios...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote is tomorrow, and insiders expect that one of his many announcements will be to offer video rentals over iTunes. Apple will charge $4 for a movie download that can be viewed within 24 hours. Any...
POSTED Monday, January 14, 2008
Attention all television addicts: Prepare for some serious withdrawal, and a healthy dose of reality. Reality TV, that is. The East and West Coast divisions of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are on strike against the Alliance of...
POSTED Thursday, November 15, 2007
Last week we noted that Radiohead's "choose your price for our new album" experiment would probably be good for major record labels in the long run. But why wait? The band's old record label, EMI's Parlophone, is trying to...
POSTED Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Every once in a while a new technology comes along that's impossible not to love, though it has many serious drawbacks. The Eye-Fi wireless SD card that hit stores this week falls into that category. The card sends images...
POSTED Sunday, November 4, 2007
Earlier this month Radiohead released its new album In Rainbows, making the music available using an ingenious "pay what you want" scheme. You can download the album for whatever you think it's worth (which could be $0) from the...
POSTED Thursday, November 1, 2007
In a surprising and admirable move, Microsoft yesterday announced plans to let loose a million songs without any DRM (digital rights management) on the company's Zune Marketplace online music store. Western Civilization has so far not collapsed. The copy-protection-free...
POSTED Thursday, October 4, 2007
Amazon has just opened up their new DRM-free MP3 store, aiming squarely at the space between the iTunes Music Store's eyes. Featuring plain-old MP3s encoded at a healthy 256kbps, the store one-ups iTunes with price (tracks are $0.89 to...
POSTED Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Nothing spoils a nice, legal BitTorrent downloading session like leechers. People turn off their uploads and just download, killing the entire point of BitTorrent and slowing the speeds for everyone else. The whole point of BitTorrent is to share...
POSTED Friday, August 31, 2007
I'm pissed, and feel more than a little ripped off. I made an assumption, and we all know what happens when you assume. Back in April, I wrote about EMI working with Apple's iTunes to make the EMI catalog...
POSTED Thursday, July 12, 2007
iTunes just got an upgrade, getting things prepped for the DRM-free AAC sales as well as adding some new features. Dubbed iTunes Plus, the new version will allow you to either download DRM-encased files for the standard $0.99 or,...
POSTED Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Yesterday Amazon announced it would open a digital music store sometime later in the year. This was a move that analysts had been expecting, but the exciting aspect of the company's announcement was that the songs sold from Amazon's...
POSTED Sunday, May 20, 2007
Rumors are flying around the Internet about Apple considering adding a subscription service to their iTunes Music Store. That would mean those of you out there who don't feel like dropping $.99 per track would be able to pay a...
POSTED Friday, April 13, 2007
Media pirates hate spending money on stuff like music or movies, but put a fancy piece of technology in front of them that'll help them download more stuff in less time and you'll suddenly discover that these people do in...
POSTED Wednesday, April 11, 2007
In a surprising and awesome move, Apple and EMI announced today that they'll be putting EMI's catalog of music on iTunes in DRM-free format. That means you'll be able to buy music with no copy protection, allowing you to listen...
POSTED Monday, April 2, 2007
With everyone all psyched about downloading HD movies and CD-quality music and all that jazz, our trusty Ethernet cables are starting to look like they might not be up to the task. We want to be able to download multiple...
POSTED Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Well, we might not have a true video iPod or an iPhone, but Apple gave us a few things to talk about during Steve Jobs' "It's Showtime!" event today. iTunes and the accompanying online store got an upgrade, both...
POSTED Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Well, Amazon sure knows how to take the wind out of Apple's sails. Just a week before Apple is rumored to be officially announcing their iTunes Movie Store, it's launched an online movies store of its own called Unbox....
POSTED Friday, September 8, 2006
MySpace, one of the most popular and poorly designed sites on the Internet, is looking to move into the online music store business. Already hugely popular in part because of it allows unsigned bands a way to get their...
POSTED Tuesday, September 5, 2006
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That seems to be the approach that Universal is taking towards the rampant music piracy that the RIAA has been futilely battling for the past few years, as they've recently decided to start...
POSTED Tuesday, August 29, 2006
While at the moment you'll still need to resort to less than legal methods in order to download Mission: Impossible III, word is coming that you'll soon be able to download your indie movie faves from Lions Gate without...
POSTED Friday, August 18, 2006
As electronics manufacturers try to remove cables from our lives completely, it'll only be a matter of time before cameras lose their wired leashes. The EyeFi is looking to make that happen sooner rather than later. What looks like an...
POSTED Thursday, August 17, 2006
Convergence ahoy! HP's MediaSmart HDTV (Model SLC3760N), first announced at CES in January and just becoming available, turns your living-room television into the supreme commander of all your digital media. Once you've connected it to your home network —...
POSTED Sunday, August 13, 2006
When is a router more than a router? When it can hold 160 GB of files, act as an iTunes server, download files via FTP and BitTorrent, and act as an FTP server, all with your computer off. Yeah, we...
POSTED Friday, August 11, 2006
We all know that iTunes is the undisputed king of the online music store castle, but there are a bunch of little guys fighting over the scraps thrown away by the behemoth from Cupertino. While services like Napster and Rhapsody...
POSTED Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Kazaa is dead! Long live Kazaa! Yes, long-lasting thorn in the RIAA's side Kazaa has finally caved, agreeing to pay $115 million to record companies and become born again as a legit pay-to-download service. Springing up out of the ashes...
POSTED Friday, July 28, 2006
After weeks of rumors and speculation flying around the Internet, Microsoft has finally made official what we've assumed for a while: they're releasing a portable music player called Zune to take on the iPod. Not just a player, Zune...
POSTED Monday, July 24, 2006
Trying to one-up movie downloading service Vongo, rival CinemaNow has just given customers the ability to burn downloaded movies to DVD. Offering over 100 films for your burning pleasure, each download will give users all the menus and features...
POSTED Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Using sharpies to label that mix CD you made to woo the pretty girl down the block makes you look like you don't really care, and that early onset of Parkinson's makes applying label stickers a frustrating ordeal. What's...
POSTED Wednesday, July 19, 2006
It sounds like the battle between Steve Jobs and Hollywood executives over the price of movies at the iTunes Music Store has ended with a compromise. While Steve wanted to sell movies like he sells music, at a flat...
POSTED Tuesday, July 18, 2006
In what will probably be really bad news for companies such as Blockbuster and Vongo but great news for the rest of us, Netflix is reportedly hard at work on a set-top box for movie downloads deep in the company's...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Toshiba wants to take down the iPod in a bad way, and they hope the one-two punch of the new gigabeat S and its partnership with movie-downloading service Vongo will help them do it. Coming in both 30-GB and...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Over the past couple of years we've seen more and more mobile phones with built-in music players, so it was probably inevitable that music players would start picking up communications abilities. Case in point: MusicGremlin's MG-1000 "Gremlin" MP3 player,...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Apparently the RIAA has been reading different news and talking to different people than we have, as CEO Mitch Bainwol has declared music piracy officially "contained." That's right, contained. Much like an infectious disease or an oil spill, a barrier...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
CBS has become the last of the major networks to offer its prime-time programming for download from the iTunes Music Store, joining the other three major networks as well as a number of cable channels (including SCI FI). So far...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
Sending large files via e-mail is a pain, as most services have limits on how big an attachment you can send, usually less than 10 MB. With multimedia files such as audio and video generally taking up much more space...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Iriver has announced its new clix portable music player, featuring tight integration with Windows Media Player 11 and the new MTV Urge music store. Shooting for the type of easy syncing that makes the iPod/iTunes combo so popular, Microsoft...
POSTED Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Independent PC-game maker S2 Games is planning to release Savage 2: A Tortured Soul as a direct download from its Web site instead of selling it through stores. The game will sell for $30 per download — $20 cheaper than...
POSTED Thursday, March 2, 2006
There's a low of 21°F in eastern Michigan today, but West Bloomfield resident Alex Ostrovsky is probably feeling just fine. Ostrovsky accounted for last night's 1 billionth iTunes download, the Coldplay track "Speed of Sound." For being one in a...
POSTED Thursday, February 23, 2006
McAfee sees a need to protect your mobile. The PC virus specialist rolled out security software, VirusScan Mobile, which includes antivirus, firewall, content-filtering, antispam, and antispyware capabilities. You can download the shield directly from McAfee, and some manufacturers may preinstall...
POSTED Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Buried in an impressively doublespoken report (I mean, "bimodal consumer types"? "Core competencies"? Come on...) on the future of the TV industry, IBM appears to strongly encourage TV networks to make their shows easily copyable to portable players. The summary...
POSTED Thursday, January 26, 2006
Hey, if you can put subway maps on an iPod, why not people's turn-offs and turn-ons? PodDater.com aims to bring sexy singles to your fingertips by letting you download members' self-made videos to your iPod. You don't even have...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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