Entries tagged with movies - Channel 10

MSN UK Launches WALL•E Portal

sarahintampa — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:58:00 GMT

For fans of the Disney blockbuster, WALL•E, you have to go check out MSN UK’s new WALL•E portal. This site has a lot of downloads and other goodies for Windows Live, including Messenger Packs, Display Pictures, and Backgrounds for Windows Live Messenger as well as desktop wallpapers for your PC. You can also download an animated signature which you can use either in your email or as your forum signature. To get access to these free downloads, just visit the portal here: wall-e.msn.co.uk.

My Movies Media Center Plugin

sarahintampa — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:51:00 GMT

WeGotServed has the scoop on another new plugin for Media Center - and it’s one of the more useful ones we’ve seen, too. This plugin, called My Movies, adds an extra tab to the “TV+Movies” button in Media Center and shows a list of all the ripped movies stored on your Windows Home Server, including cover art, cast and crew info, and even a link to a trailer. Of course, we can't condone ripping DVD's, but there is plenty of info on the subject.

With My Movies you are able to index your movies, browse them, stream them for viewing, share your movie database with multiple clients, and configure each client with its own parental control limitations. You can download the MyMovies plugin from here.

It's Official: Get Netflix on your Xbox 360

Larry — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:19:00 GMT

This morning we announced support for Netflix service as being built-in in an upcoming software update to 360 service. As C|Net points out, there have been some workarounds for this in the meantime, but this solution will allow you to stream natively and without a dedicated Media Center PC.

Also announced is a shared movie experience that will let you watch a movie at distance with up to 7 friends at once. Major Nelson promises more details on this later today.

3 Ways To Stream Netflix Movies From Your PC to TV

sarahintampa — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:47:00 GMT

Last year, Neflix started offering the ability to stream movies over the internet to your PC. Of course, for Windows Media Player enthusiasts, the next logical step was to port Netflix into Media Center by way of a plugin. Luckily, there's a pretty active developer community for WMC, so we ended up with not one, but three, Windows Media Player plugins from which to choose: vmcNetflix, MyNetflix, and NetflixMC.

But which one is right for you? Let's compare:

MyNeflix

System Requirements: Vista MCE, .NET 2.0, Netflix WatchNow player
View Netflix queue
Manage Netflix queue
View history
View recommendations
Browse movies by title, genre, or top 100
Browse "Watch Now" movies
Play movies in full screen
Nice interface, very responsive
Does Not Work With Extenders
Download MyNetflix

vmcNetFlix

System Requirements: Vista MCE and Netflix WatchNow player
View Netflix queue
Manage Netflix queue
View history
View recommendations
Browse movies by genres; sort by title or year
Browse "Watch Now" movies
Keyword Search
Play movies in full screen
Support for x64 and x86
Support for Netflix Instant Queue
Support for Episode Listings
Prevents standby/sleep mode while downloading
Clean interface, easy to browse, runs smoothly
Works With Extenders
Download vmcNetflix

NetflixMC

System Requirements: Vista or MCE 2005 and .NET 2.0 or 3.5
Browse movies by genre
Browse "Watch Now" movies
Fast, Real-time "Watch Now" search
Bookmark "Watch Now" movies
TV Series episode selection
Image caching stream speed settings
Menu Personalization
A bit slow, still a “beta” app
Runs on extenders but WILL NOT play WatchNow videos
Download NetflixMC

So which one should you choose? The quick answer here is that if you have Windows XP, you only have one choice: NetflixMC. For Vista users, both MyNetflix and vmcNetflix are nice, but the extender support that vmcNetflix has makes it the clear winner. You can download vmcNetflix here.

Download Iron Man Demo for Free

sarahintampa — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:44:00 GMT

If you're like a bunch of people I know, you're pretty darned excited for the upcoming Iron Man movie. As you may know, there will also be an accompanying Iron Man video game for Xbox. Both game and movie will arrive on May 2nd, but you can sample the game now, for free, via the demo available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. According to the description on Major Nelson's site, the game lets you: "Immerse yourself in hardcore shooting action and explosive combat from the film as well as exclusive content created just for the game. Customize your Iron Man suit and battle against armies of fighter jets, tanks, armored Super Villains and more. You are a One Man Army. " (via Xbox 360 Fanboy)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - for the XBOX 360

Laura — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:07:00 GMT

Aaaargh! Get ready to play as Captain Jack Sparrow and his charming cast of characters. Beyond incredible character likenesses and tongue in cheek dialogue, there's actually great gameplay as well. Pull off sword-assisted acrobatics, adaptive combat and classical dueling in unique gameplay. Experience the Pirates of the Caribbean world in never-before-seen detail, going beyond the films' events and storylines to introduce new locations, an extended story, legendary pirates and a unique ending. Live and die by the sword, matey!

Change a bulb, change everything.

Laura — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:40:00 GMT

Al Gores Academy Award Winning documentary about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" has exponentially heightened America's awareness about the state of our environment. The film is both frightening and motivational. I met with the producer of "An Inconvenient Truth", Lawrence Bender about his latest effort to help save the planet : 18seconds.org. On his site and in this interview you'll learn about some tiny changes we can all make in our daily lives that can drastically help preserve our planet. Watch this interview, visit 18seconds.org and spread the word.

Newtek Lightwave 3D creates emmy nominated nuclear explosions!

Laura — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:08:00 GMT

If your friends are anything like mine- you guys love to settle in front of the TV and watch Jack Bauer kick ass on 24. Well- the season premiere episode this year created a ton of buzz amongst digital artists and graphic animators. Jarrod Davis of Zoic Studios created the most realistic, brilliant nuclear explosion to ever go off over the city of Angels. I tracked down the man himself to see what software, hardware and undeniable skill is required to create this kind of digital art. And now...he shares this knowledge with you. Watch and learn.

Spinning DVDs like vinyl with the Pioneer DVJ 1000

Laura — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:45:00 GMT

Remember when DJ's just played music? Well those days are in the past now. At CES this year I was awestruck by the performance I saw at the Pioneer booth. "DJ Roonie G" took control of the Pioneer DVJ 1000, the worlds first DVD turntables, and mixed music CD's with movies- both professional and home made. He created a visual and musical masterpiece where all traditional lines became blurred. You have to watch this piece...and demand all your favorite DJ's do the same. Clubbing has never been so cool.

Netflix adds new business model: online movie viewing

Jesse — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:46:00 GMT

The worst kept secret about Netflix, just stepped out into the light. The goal is to distribute rentals over the Internet -- shipping DVDs is only for generating revenue and biding time. This morning Netflix announced the rollout of their immediate viewing feature.

By June all existing Netflix subscribers will have access to the 1,000 titles initially licensed for online viewing, which requires Windows XP and IE. Each user will have somewhere between 6 and 48 hours of online viewing per month depending on their membership agreement.

Via Hacking Netflix

Xbox Live Video brings HD movies and television to your Xbox 360

Jesse — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:04:00 GMT

If you're like us, one of the most obnoxious things about living the geek lifestyle is switching between television inputs. Video-1 for the Tivo, Video-2 for the HD content, Video-3 for the Xbox, etc. For the all the happy proliferation of digital toys in our lives, we always end up craving consolidation (termed by the jargon demagogues as 'convergence').

Beginning on the 22nd of this month, which just happens to be its birthday, your Xbox 360 will offer feature film and television downloads. Through the cunning use of the Live Marketplace and your Microsoft Points, you'll be able to subscribe to television shows like CSI: Miami and Robot Chicken. Also if you want to rent an HD version of V for Vendetta it'll be there waiting on the other end of your broadband pipe. Check out the Live Marketplace movie and tv menus at Engadget.

Brave New World: Make your own movie, tv, or radio show

bcrounse — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:16:00 GMT

Next week I'm off to New York for the International Freddie Awards. If you don't know about the Freddie Awards; it is a celebration to honor excellence in medical and scientific film, documentaries, television, videos, Web sites, DVDs and CD-ROMs. Now in its 32nd year, the International Health and Medical Media Awards, the Freddies, have become the equivalent of the Academy Award for Film or the Emmy for television. At the awards ceremony next Friday, it will be my distinct honor to present one of the evening's highest honors; a founder's award that is named after famous heart surgeon and researcher, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey.

Why am I hanging out with this crowd? I haven't shared with readers of my Blog that a substantial portion of my career has been dedicated to medical broadcasting. For more than 20 years, I anchored medical programming for Lifetime Medical Television, ABC News, Medical News Network, Discovery and other outlets. I also served as medical editor for the ABC and CBS television affiliates in Seattle, appearing nightly on the evening news. In fact, my career in television news and entertainment programming started long before I became a physician. I was actually anchoring the evening TV news (on weekends) before I was old enough to vote. Trust me that would never be allowed today.

Back in the day, I needed a multimillion dollar broadcasting studio to do my work, along with complex and costly recording and editing equipment, camera people, sound people, and more. Today, any one of you could produce, host, and broadcast to the world from your desktop or laptop or iPod (that wireless will come in handy on the Zune). My point is this. There has never been more opportunity or more accessibility for everyone to be heard and seen. Broadcasting has become commoditized. While that makes it much harder to earn a living, it makes it much easier to break into the business. And as the founders of YouTube and others have learned, there is gold in them there hills if you can find it. (By the way, have you checked out MSN Soapbox yet?) There is also an opportunity to change the world; to educate, inform, entertain, and enrich the lives of people. Sometimes I think, "If only I had been born a few decades later". The possibilities today seem infinite.

So please continue to write those Blogs, produce those podcasts, and post those videos. And every time you do, thank your lucky stars you live in an era when the communications universe is at your fingertips. If you are looking for a list of people to thank, besides the usual names that come to mind, check out the Computer History Museum.

Bill Crounse, MD Healthcare Industry Director Microsoft