Afternoon tech news: Miramax Pictures is experimenting with movies on demand over the Internet by making "Guinevere" film available for download in a pay-per-view scheme; Student lunch purchases using a fingerprint scanner are causing concern among privacy groups; and Swedish airline SAS will test a wireless Internet system that runs on-board aircraft.
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When going to the miramax homepage and trying to download the movie I found out that:
You must have Windows Media Player 7
and Windows 98, Millenium or 2000
to purchase this movie
Mac users need not apply! Downloading the movie requires Windows Media player 7 on Win98, ME or 2000. They claim this is for security reasons.
I thought QuickTime 5 was going to feature some sort of encryption technology.
Apple is going to need to kick some of these content distributors in the butt if the Cube is to become the stylish hub of your digital entertainment network.
Swedish Airline Service, my but.
It's Scandinavian and not swedish.
Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Use this link
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/download/mac7.asp
to download a beta of Windows Media Player 7 for the Mac
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Seems like the sight&sound download doesn't allow for the program to start until the entire show is downloaded. This is a fatal flaw. It seems like the advantage of QT is that you could begin to download the file and after a certain amount of time begin to watch it without having to wait for the whole thing to download.
The fact that it is only 500 megs for a 90 minute movie suggests that with QT at a comperable compression rate, you could be begin watching as soon as you clicked on it assuming that your DSL or Cable could pull 150 k/sec (1200 m/bits) as a connection that fast could download the 90 minute movie in slightly more than 60 minutes.
The other problem is $3.45 for Gueniverre. For that piece of cr*p, they should pay me $3.45 to watch it. ;)