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matthewkappenman.net/blog » Blog Archive » Links for 09-08 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:26:47 +0000

[...] one digital life Â» Amazon Unbox Video Downloads Yawn…it doesn’t work on Macs or Linux so who cares. [...]

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:05:19 +0000

Be sure to read the EULA on this one. Apparently, you giving away many rights and privilages just to download movies at near retail prices.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.html

By: T.I.

T.I. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:02:32 +0000

I read, that it would be keen film… Is it a true?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:18:43 +0000

Ah, just saw the Vongo site. Maybe Apple is to blame for that one.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:17:48 +0000

Who releases online services that don’t work on Mac anymore? That’s so 1995.

By: UsrBinBoy

UsrBinBoy — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:32:28 +0000

I just found this via a TV ad:
http://www.vongo.com/

It’s PC only.

By: Chris Freitag

Chris Freitag — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:56:24 +0000

As I am a regular customer of Amazon’s I wish them luck in their venture, but I wish they would have chosen an open format. This proprietary model is getting out of hand. The media companies gain success, but customers suffer. Won’t work on an iPod??!!?? I don’t think the overwhelming popularity of the iPod is a flash in the pan. I don’t think we even need to address the frustration of the Mac movie lovers. But Windows users who love their ipods won’t be able to make their downloaded movies portable. Does this seem exclusionary to anyone else? Here’s a shiny, new, red bicycle…but you can only ride it in your driveway…in circles.

Some mobile phone carriers (read Verizon) are opening similar media outlets (read VCast) that work in a proprietary format. They advertise that their phones will play mp3s. Great, I’ve got mp3s. What is not as openly advertised is that the mp3s are encoded into m4as with Windows Media Player 10, which is only available for Windows. You really need to do cartwheels to get your iTunes playlists to play on Verizon compatible hardware.

Everyone is trying to take Apple head-on. Video is video and songs are songs, let paying customers use them how they’d like without a 4-5 step workaround the proprietary format.