http://www.news.com/Coming-soon-Movies-on-flash-memory-cards/2100-11398_3-6232651.html?tag=nefd.lede http://www.portomedia.com/
As I understand it, their idea is that you buy their proprietary USB-based key, walk over to their kiosk, select and download a film in under a minute, bring it home, dump it into the computer via standard USB the time it takes, then watch it on Windows or in a purchased branded set-top box. It's time-bombed Windows DRM and the kiosk is nonstandard USB, they get you by imposing the hardware interface and encouraging you to continue to "go down to the video store". I don't know whhat codec they use, but probably not H.264/AAC if it's Windows Media. Toshiba, Samsung, IBM, Seagate are partners. Non-Windows need not apply. The journalist claims a transfer to an iPod Touch took only a few seconds, but doesn't go so far as to say he viewed the film, since if it is MS DRM'd it won't play on any iPod without stripping the DRM. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
