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Apple has at last begun a proper international roll-out of its iTunes Movie Store, and with it the Apple TV. Just five years after video was first available in iTunes, non-US customers can buy and rent films.
The extent of this new wave is not entirely clear. Spain has movies to buy and rent, and the rumors says that Taiwan, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Portugal, and Belgium are also on the list. There are a few non-US countries, like the UK and Germany, which already have access to video.
The AppleTV is also showing up in online Apple Stores. Here in Spain, it is going for a too-expensive €119, or $163, way above the $99 charged back at home. As for movies, they cost €10 ($14) to buy in SD, €17 ($23) in HD and €4 ($5.50) to rent. Ouch.
To check if your country is included, just head over to the iTunes Store, where a new top-level category has been added. You can also buy movies from your iOS device. While the iPad version of the store has not yet gotten the new section, the movies can be found, previewed and bought by searching.
There’s one giant piece of bad news, though. The movies are dubbed, not subtitled. This is fine for the multiplex blockbuster crowd, but the demographic which will buy and rent movies from iTunes is surely the demographic which would prefer the original soundtrack with subs.
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Sony’s “it only does everything” claim for the PS3 seems to be growing stronger with every day that passes. After getting Hulu Plus in the US recently, the versatile console has just seen the green light to start some movie streaming action in the UK, courtesy of a hookup with Lovefilm. To get this free extra, you have to have a £5.99 or above monthly Lovefilm subscription (that’s excluding its Games offering), though there’s a limit on how much streaming you can do at that price point. Such stipulations fall by the wayside on the £9.99 top tier, leaving you and your console to enjoy as many movies as you can handle.
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Videohybrid is essentially an illegal sharing ring for movies, tv, shows, anime, and cartoons. In some sense it is similar to Peekvid, except that they let users request videos. Registered users can then vote up requests in a Digg-like fashion, and the first person who fulfills the request earns all of the points it has racked up.
So what kind of media has been scrounged up by their users? Here’s the top ten most popular videos that they have successfully acquired in one way or another:
Most of those videos, as you can probably tell, are still in the theaters. The recording quality isn’t great, but what’s more interesting is that they are available for those of you who can’t wait for them to come out on video and don’t want to see them in the theater.
Videohybrid also lets you downloaded each movie’s associated files so that you can watch them at your own leisure on your computer. Most of them are are in the FLV file format, and you’ll need a specialized player such as GOM (our review) or VLC to play them.
It will be interesting to see how long this service survives since their WHOIS information says that they are located in the United States (Washington specifically). I have a feeling that the MPAA isn’t going to let this float by for too much longer.
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Good news: as early as next year, you may be able to
(legally) screen first-run new release motion pictures in your home at the same
time as movie theaters. The bad news? Price, of course. The films, according to
a new interview with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, will cost you $50 a pop.
A lot for a movie, right? Well, at $10 a ticket to see film
in theaters (actually, I think I paid like $13 the last time I saw one–but then,
that’s what I get for living in New York), it really depends on how many
friends you invite over.
The concept is really just that–Bewkes is floating his idea.
Odds are that movie theaters won’t be particularly enthusiastic about the
increased competition from the proposed on-demand services. According to ZDNet,
the company is also looking into the possibility of lengthening the amount of
time it takes for those videos to land on services like Netflix and Redbox.
Not that anyone really needed to have this spelled out, but America’s tots are apparently spending too much time in front of the telly tubes. The latest study, conducted by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington, finds that children under the age of five are spending 4.1 hours of each day watching movies or TV, doubling the recommended maximum of two hours a day. Whether you take the slightly arbitrary two-hour RDA to heart or not, it’s undeniable that all of us — not just the young ‘uns — are spending increasingly larger chunks of our time looking at the world through a screen and not through our own retinas. And, if you want an extra topping of alarmist extrapolation, these figures come from a research sample concluded in 2006, today’s better-equipped toddlers are very likely to outdo those numbers when mobile devices and the like are factored in. Imagine how bad this would all be if the US didn’t have so much quality programming to entertain and educate them with.
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PlayStation 3 just leapfrogged Xbox 360 and snagged the best Netflix experience on a videogame console yet.
The new Netflix application for PS3, rolling out for download Monday, will enable Netflix subscribers with PS3s to watch movies and TV without a disc. Some titles will even stream in 1080i HD and 5.1 digital surround sound.
Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” streaming-video feature has been available for PS3 since late last year, but it required a Blu-ray disc in order to access the service. Now, by running Watch Instantly as a native PS3 app on the console, users can ditch the disc altogether. Netflix also has a new user interface, optimized for the PS3 controller’s analog joysticks.
In the new UI, search especially seems smartly designed for the PS3 controller, using an alphabetical grid and intelligent auto-complete to minimize the pain of text entry, as seen in this still:
Still from Sony PS3 promotional video.
I even like the way the controller buttons control common text-entry commands in context — like Space, Delete and Enter. There are keyboards available for PS3, but being able to use the controller well is a real asset.
Netflix has not only continued to bring its streaming service to seemingly every device with a screen, but to make that service better. Still, among consoles, the announced PS3 app stands out: Xbox users don’t have 1080i or surround sound, and Wii users have only now added search to their service, which still requires an “Instant Streaming” disc.
Adding media services has become part of the continued rivalry between Xbox and PS3, along with new motion-capture interaction devices like PlayStation’s Move controller and Xbox’s Kinect.
Besides videogame consoles, Netflix can now stream to personal computers on Windows and Mac; TiVo, HD, Roku, Logitech and Apple TV boxes; Windows Phone 7 and all iOS devices; and a wide array of net-connected TVs and Blu-Ray players, including those using Google TV.
Roku’s players, which began as Netflix-only boxes, will soon be available in retail stores through a partnership with Netgear.
Netflix on PS3: Disc-free Next Week [Playstation Blog]
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Considering our leak a couple of days back came directly from Sony itself, this is hardly a suprise, but Eurogamer has done the diligent thing and managed to confirm with the dudes in suits that British film streaming service Lovefilm will indeed be coming to the PlayStation 3. The everything console is adding the UK answer to Netflix to its stable of software enhancements, which will let people buy pay-per-view movies or, provided they’re on Lovefilm’s £5.99 subscription or above, let them stream away without a care in the world. Oh, and the video ad that got pulled? We’ve now got it for you after the break.
Update: Electric Pig have been told that the PPV option will be left off the table for console streamers.
Update 2: Lovefilm has gotten in touch with us directly to say the service is rolling out this November.
PS3 and Lovefilm make it official, streaming movies to consoles in the UK this November (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Applidium, the software company who ported media player VLC to the iPad, has announced that a universal iOS version was under review by Apple and that they expect it to be quickly approved. Since Apple approved the iPad version for the App Store last month, it’s overwhelmingly likely that iPhone and iPod touch users will soon be able to download VLC as well.
VLC Media Player brings support for a tremendous number of popular media file formats to iOS devices, particularly movie and audio files that QuickTime can’t play. Demand for VLC from iPhone users was strong enough that an unofficial port was available for jailbroken phones more than two years ago.
Wired.com’s Charlie Sorrel got an early hands-on with VLC for iPad, and called it simpler and prettier than the desktop app, while remaining just as versatile. Now that some bugs have been fixed and features have been added, iPhone and iPod Touch users will get to see an even better iteration.
Unfortunately, it looks like users of older iPhones and iPod Touches will be left behind. Only the iPhone 4 and 3GS and their same-generation iPod touch counterparts will be officially supported. According to Applidium, the iPhone 3G and earlier models don’t have the processing power to do the on-the-fly decoding VLC requires.
Other changes include support for opening media files from Mail or Safari directly in VLC, bug fixes and some speed improvements.
VLC pour iPhone et iPod bientôt disponible sur l’AppStore [Applidium]
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