So yesterday, people were giving credit to Michael Bay (director of Transformers) for “standing up to Paramount” after their decision to back HD DVD instead of both Blu-Ray and HD DVD. He was quoted as saying “”
“But everybody is doing it” appears to be one of the popular excuses that children are using in Europe and elsewhere when asked why they are illegally downloading music and movies, according to a recent study. And when they say “everybody,” often times they mean their parents too.
Blockbuster has been on an uphill climb for quite some time now as they try to figure out how to morph themselves into a company that can compete with Netflix. The brick & mortar thing just doesn’t work anymore when people have the opportunity to download movies, or receive them in the mail.
When Netflix started their streaming video service, dubbed "Watch Now," the first thing that popped into the minds of some people was saving the video to their hard drive. The problem is that the videos are plagued with DRM, as is most digital media these days, and you need to do some things in order to get around it.
What would you do if you lost your entire movie collection? Wouldn’t it be nice to have some backups laying around in case someone scratched your precious Rudy video or your dog ate an entire season of the Simpsons?
Just a few weeks ago we wrote about Sony’s latest promotion to offer five free Blu-ray movies with a Blu-ray Disc purchase as a method to boost their sales. Now it appears as though Microsoft is following the lead of Sony with their offer of five free HD DVD movies with the newly re-priced Xbox HD DVD Player.
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty excited for the release of the movie “Bourne Ultimatum.” It’s top on my list of “must-see” movies for this Summer, and if you’re as excited as I am, you’ll probably be interested in “The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google.” Universal Studios and Google have teamed up to promote the movie and prizes are involved!
Remember back in February when TiVo and Amazon announced a partnership to bring movies to TiVo users? At the time, those who wanted to use the service were required to purchase the movies that they wanted from the Amazon website which obviously required the use of a computer.
Missed a season of your favorite show? Want to "try" out a TV series before you buy the whole season on DVD? Don't have a TV, but have highspeed Internet? I'll stop there, but the excuses/reasons for using Peekvid are probably endless.
