Hulu is currently on a war path of sorts, with it’s content owners closing up holes, cramming in advertisements and effectively killing all the reasons consumers loved the service in the first place. Even worse is the fact that those same content owners (motivated by greed of course) are butchering Hulu’s transgression to mobiles. Bad for them, good for us. Where Hulu is letting us mobile users down, Fox’s new “Bitbop” will pick up the...
Who doesn’t love a nice patent leak detailing things to *hopefully* come? While things that go through the patent process don’t always materialize and come to light, the revealing of such things often gives mere mortals an earl look at what could come. For tonight, we’re looking at iTunes Live. You’ll all remember Apple’s purchase of LaLa many weeks back. Unfortunately for LaLa fans, Apple shuttered the service. To make up for it, Apple...
Lala users will want to take as much streaming music in as they can these next few weeks. Today it’s been made officially known that on May 31st, the service they’ve come to know and love will cease to exist — at least as Lala.com that is… After Lala was picked up by Apple weeks back, many speculated that the obvious (Lala closing) was going to happen. Apple usually assimilates companies for their services, technology, and/or ideas. The most...
I’m still not too convinced on dropping several hundred on the iPad, but the pictures I’m seeing from the new *leaked* Netflix app are certainly a step in the right direction to warming me up. I love movies, especially finding new movies. Netflix in that sense is like a gateway to a land full of narcotics, visually pleasing and entertaining narcotics. With that big display and slick UI, watching — and streaming no less! — movies will certainly be...
Besides the epic failure of music labels’ inability to find a working business model in the digital age, there is one other contestant in particular vying for “worst performance in the digital arena ever” award: Blockbuster. When I was a kid (not too long ago), I remember going to Blockbuster sometimes as often as a couple of times every week. It was great. The competition with other locals Hollywood Video (now deceased) and Family Video (greatly...
