Online Movie Downloads – Free Trailers

So Movielink talked about this new technology but Cinemanow has actually produced it! This is a very big day for the movie industry. It seems they are now ready to take the bold steps required to re-connect with their customers. Burn to DVD functionality is  a huge step forward.  Let’s hope this works as well as  reported on news.com

Oh, and movielink is supposed to already have this technology but it won’t be ready for 6 months, or so? Hmmm not sure what that means.

Online movie seller CinemaNow late on Tuesday unveiled a new service that allows customers to download a movie from the Internet and copy it onto a DVD that can be played on any standard DVD player.The new, legal download-to-burn service marks a major step for Hollywood as its movie and television studios seek to offer movies and TV shows to consumers via the Web for playback on TVs and portable DVD players.The studios see digital movie downloads as generating new revenues from old titles, and CinemaNow aims to do just that by first offering only 100 older films, such as 2003′s “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and 1992′s “Scent of a Woman.”

CinemaNow unveils download-to-burn DVD service | CNET News.com

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Movielink, which distributes movies over the Internet, is close to fixing one of the main drawbacks to downloading films over the Web.Santa Monica, Calif.-based Movielink has purchased technology from software company Sonic Solutions that makes it possible for customers to transfer the movies they download onto DVDs, according to a Sonic Solutions’ spokesman.

Movielink to allow movies transferred to DVDs | CNET News.com

It’s about time. However if you go and read the full cnet story you will see no timeliness. Meaning this may not be available for 2 weeks, 6 months, 2 years… It’s nice to hear Hollywood is finally listening to it’s customers, but we still don’t know when this product will be ready for use.
Who will make it to market first Cinemanow or movielink and who will have the better product? I guess only time will tell. Until then most people I know still love their netflix and on demand…

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Found this on Tech Crunch com:

Well let’s hope the spend the money on more servers. Their service has become so slow in the last year.

Blog search engine Technorati raised an additional $7.6 million in Series C funding in June from previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital. The information has been picked up from a SEC document files by one of the investor’s limited partners. Notably, August Capital, a previous investor, did not participate in this round. This news comes just after news of rival Feedster’s recent funding.

People have had a close eye on the company recently. Traffic continues not to spike, some employees have left, and rumored acquisitions didn’t pan out. Given that the previous round was in 2004, the company had to be low on cash. Our assumption is that this round was done at a flat or down valuation. Technorati will not comment on corporate activities, so additional information will almost certainly not become available.

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Technorati scores $7.6m more funding

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Movies for download on itunes? This reported by Variety, the Hollywood rag. Apple is in negotiations with most of the major movie studios to add movie content to their online store. This would be the next logical step, since they now offer, music, music videos, and primetime TV shows.

This should be of no surprise to you that Apple is in talks with the major studios to offer movies in their itunes store.

Retuers states” Citing unnamed sources, Variety said iTunes might begin offering film downloads by the end of 2006, but currently a price on iTunes is a sticking point in negotiations.”

This should come as no surprise as well. Just check out the price points on movielink and Cinemanow.com. They charge more for less of a product. You get the feeling the only reason these two sites have movies available is so the Hollywood studios can avoid an investigation by the Department of Justice.

Steve Jobs of Apple wants a flat fee of $9.99 per movie and the Studios want a varying pricing base on movie title. With some as high as $19.99! Again look at Movielink or Cinemanow and see how varying pricing can confuse the customer. Jobs needs to hold his ground on this point as it’s the foundation for a successful site.

Time line for this new project is end of 2006. Just in time for the holidays and new ipods that are sure to hit the stores right in time for the Christmas rush.

Share Music iPod to iPod-No Restrictions

I love my ipod but there is one draw back. I hate the fact that I can’t transfer music form my ipod back to my computer. Why? I am sure it was to calm music industry fear of piracy, but for the consumer it sucks. I own the ipod I own the music via itunes store why can’t I transfer the tunes from one computer to another? You used to be able to do this but not any longer.

Yes I know there are many different types of software you can buy that will allow this type of transfer but after going to download.com and tying several different programs and getting all kinds of spyware placed on my computer I just gave up. Yesterday my friend called me up and told me about this software he bought at Fry’s that allows him to:

COPY MUSIC from ANY iPod
COPY ANY DVD MOVIES to your iPod
CREATE FREE RINGTONES from any mp3 or CD
PROTECT your valuable music collection from disaster!
VIEW daily news, weather, email and more on your iPod

So I went over to the site and downloaded the software. It’s awesome! No spyware thank god. I will write more about feature and tips at a later date. But for now I want to start turning DVD’s into ipod movies and transfer music from one computer to another.

You can check out this software here

I hope in the next version of ipods Jobs will listen to his customers and allow us to transfer once again.