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Question of the Day: Do You Have the Balls for Betas?

Beta software is not for the timid. Warnings like "proceed with caution" and "use at your own risk" often accompany these releases—and many are content to wait for a stable version fearing that they might do damage to their current installations or configurations. So, the question is: do you like to jump on the beta bandwagon or do you like to wait it out? More »

5:33 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,810 views, 63 comments

Latest by n/a: @nicjasno: And Yahoo Mail users, unless you switch back to "classic". more »

question of the day

$5 a Month For Legal P2P: Would It Lure Pirates From the Dark Side?

With CD sales dwindling fast, DRM dead, and major artists starting to give their music away—it is clear that record labels need to do something drastic to lure pirates away from illegal downloading. As Wired and ArsTechnica point out, one of the ideas on the table is to generate a file sharing surcharge that would be collected by ISPs—something like $5 a month for unlimited downloads with the proceeds being doled out to artists based on the number of times their music was traded during the month. Seems a little too good to be true, but it does raise the question: would $5 unlimited P2P be enough to convert you from a life of piracy? More »

7:30 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Sean Fallon
13,971 views, 103 comments

Latest by Skeptic: "Would $5 Unlimited P2P Stop Your Illegal Downloading?" You for got to ask "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Expect a subpoena from the RIAA for the IPs of everyone who voted yes **or** no. more »

question of the day

Question of the Day: Which is Better? Satellite, Cable, Download, or Antenna?

When it comes to television programming, there is no one service that does everything right. The number of channels, HD programming, and price are just a few of the weapons companies use to compete for your entertainment dollar. And then there are always downloading options from BitTorrent and the like. So, the question is, which one is really the best and why? Hell, I'll even throw in "Antenna" despite the fact that it is about to be phased out. More »

6:40 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Sean Fallon
25,931 views, 94 comments

Latest by n/a: @Xavoc:While cable and satellite program providers will continue to serve the great majority of homes as the primary signal source, missing HD local reception, compression issues, higher costs, billing add-ons, service outages, contact difficulties, in-home service waits and no shows more »

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Rumor: More Leaked Zune Photos Track Purchases Over Wi-Fi

Our Zune source dropped off two more photos that claim to be the Wi-Fi firmware connecting to a base station for song downloading. Remember, these photos claim to be the new firmware running on the first-gen Zune, not the advanced Zune that was talked about earlier this week. More »

11:34 PM on Thu May 10 2007
By Jason Chen
5,112 views, 34 comments

gadgets

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

Holy crap. The world record for fastest data transfer was just broken by Alcatel/Lucent, as they were able to transfer 25.6 terabits of data in one second over a single fiber strand. Well, that certainly puts my DSL line to shame. More »

6:00 PM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Adam Frucci
8,175 views, 43 comments

home entertainment

iTunes Sucks Compared to Pirated Videos

iTunes is having trouble competing against the quality of pirated content. It's like déjà vu all over again when you're talking about movie downloads competing against pirated copies of the same films. Just like the old days of Napster and free music downloads running rampant because of the dearth of legal music downloads, piracy still gives you better results today. More »

8:48 AM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By Charlie White
7,337 views, 32 comments

home entertainment

Studios Greenlight Downloaded Movie Burning, Caveats Galore

Despite movie download services popping up left and right, most of them haven't reached any kind of mass appeal thanks to limitations on burning to DVD. Some, like CinemaNow, do allow burns, but have some difficulty with certain DVD players. Thanks to Sonic Solutions, there's a new licensing program called Qflix that lets consumers burn downloaded movies onto special discs. More »

4:10 PM on Thu Jan 4 2007
By Jason Chen
687 views, 7 comments

software

iTunes Sales Numbers Plummeting

Despite talk of iTunes sales reaching so-and-so million back in the Apple Showtime event in September, actual numbers don't point such a rosy picture. Forrester Research says monthly revenue has fallen 65% since January of '06, and the average transaction size has dropped 17%. More »

4:07 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
By Jason Chen
1,079 views, 30 comments

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How To Get Around Xbox 360's Country Lock

This may be painfully obvious once you think about it, but for those who haven't, here's a way to get around the Xbox 360 country lock for downloadable content. Microsoft's chosen to disable certain game demos and game videos for people of certain regions, but we want all our media to be free, don't we? More »

8:15 PM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By Jason Chen
1,635 views, 8 comments

home entertainment

PSP Download Service Launching Simultaneously With PS3

The upcoming PSP download service that's going to allow you to watch movies and play Playstation 1 games on your PSP is launching simultaneously with the PS3. Sony's head of platform development says there's no problem running the PS1 games on the PSP using an emulator, which is good news in a time where bad news turns up more often on Sony's doorstep. More »

8:00 AM on Wed Sep 6 2006
By Jason Chen
1,149 views, 4 comments

software

First Look: Amazon's Digital Video Service

Gizmodo pal, Felipe Li, has tipped us off to some exclusive information about Amazon's video downloading service. These exclusive screens were found by some smarties with a little insider information and Google caching know how. More »

12:20 PM on Fri Aug 18 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,126 views, 5 comments

home entertainment

TiVo Applies For Content-On-Demand Download Service

Speaking of TiVo, the US patent office gave the world a sneak peek at TiVo's new download service labeled "Method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content and Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content". More »

12:33 AM on Sun Jun 18 2006
By Jason Chen
182 views, 1 comment

software

MTV Launches URGE Music Store, May Stand a Chance

MTV and Microsoft will be releasing the URGE music and video downloading service Wednesday. URGE will have more than 2 million songs for download at $.99 each or $9.95 for entire albums. There will also be an unlimited download plan for $9.95 or $14.95. More »

12:16 PM on Mon May 15 2006
By Travis Hudson
634 views, 8 comments