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Microsoft and Tesco join up for movie downloading service
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article published on 9 September, 2009
Microsoft and the large UK retailer Tesco have announced they will be teaming up to provide a new "DVD-quality" movie downloading service that uses Silverlight technology.
Beginning this fall, any Tesco customer who purchases certain DVDs will receive a free "digital copy" of the movie that they can download to their Macs or Windows machines.
In addition to the film, the digital copies ... [ read the full article ]
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windsong
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9. September 2009 @ 21:58 |
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If I want a DVD, I'll download the real DRM-free thing! Usenet, P2P, Torrent, hell even a YouTube vid is better than those grubbing worms.
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AfterDawn Addict
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9. September 2009 @ 22:48 |
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so youll just pirate it then?
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windsong
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10. September 2009 @ 02:41 |
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Dont need to. Many of them are FREE.
And you cant compete with free.
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10. September 2009 @ 13:25 |
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Tesco is taking over the WORLD!!! by partnering with other bigger companies :L
As for our friend windsong if you are getting movies for free then you are pirating them which among other things is immoral, stupid and not the sort of thing you talk about on forum sites.
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lynandal
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10. September 2009 @ 17:22 |
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good idea, but to be fair, look how Apple ruined legal music downloading, closing down other downloading services, but inflicting all these stupid rules, 5 machines max, and DRM encrypted, i paid money for songs i wanted as ringtones, then found i was unable to edit them or get my money back - I would rather buy music in shops then use download services now, because i dont want restrictions on what i own, and it allows me to copy it to my ipod still and edit them if i want.
Also - apple music downloads only work with itunes, wicked, that was fine when the rubbsih itunes software was a small download, but nowdays its massive, and it insists on re-encoding all your music to the apply format, aac or whatever. rubbish.
It took a while, but in the end I found out that winamp added support because so many other people were unhappy about lack of alternatives. so i use that now, a 6 meg download (song free) and copies to my ipod. perfect. no bloatware.
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11. September 2009 @ 00:00 |
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I take it this is the same "DVD Quality Silverlight" that netflix uses for it's high-bandwidth movies...a quality that does not look anywhere near as good as a DVD, and that is rarely available to anyone because the servers are not fast enough to stream it to many people at once.
If you read closely, this article states that the free movie comes when you buy that same movie on a disc...so it isn't a free movie, just a low-quality copy of the DVD that you bought. If you want the movie on your hard drive, just rip it from the DVD!
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