01-07-2005, 08:00 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Coming Soon: MSN Video Downloads For Pocket PCs
"With content such as sports highlights, news headlines, children's programming, music videos, independent films and comedy shows, MSN Video Downloads is the first online video download service dedicated to portable entertainment. Starting from 6 January consumers can participate in a preview of the service and access videos from more than a dozen of Microsoft partners.The MSN Video Downloads service will offer free, trial and paid memberships. Digital videos are downloaded daily to a Windows Media Player 10 library, ready to be synchronized with Portable Media Centers.
The video content is compliant with PlaysForSure devices, optimized for Portable Media Centers, and compatible with Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs that support video. The company promises full Smartphone and Pocket PC optimization to be enabled at a later date. A one-year premium membership to the MSN Video Downloads service with access to all available videos costs US$19.95. In addition, users can access a limited amount of free content without a paid membership."
You can't access it quite yet, but we have Microsoft's PROMISE that we'll get MSN Video for our Pocket PCs soon. Content will include CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Sports, Cookie Jar (for kids), DIY Network, Fine Living, iFilm, Want Media (which is a Frankensteinian mix of programming that includes BOTH Broadway shows and "extreme sports and motor sports" 8O), and a few other channels involving celebrities. Sadly, there is no mention of the Raccoon Channel. Those little guys are hilarious.
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01-07-2005, 08:17 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 434
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MS promises aside I'm pretty sure that this service will require WMP 10 which few people have access to.
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01-07-2005, 09:40 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 49
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Yeah, I'm a little bit annoyed by that post. The video is appearing on a pda2k in the picture, but the article talks of WMP10.
So evil. I'm pretty upset. :~(
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01-07-2005, 09:45 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 131
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Isn't this like Plus Sync and Go.
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01-07-2005, 09:52 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 255
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A preview version of the service is available at:
http://www.msnvideodownloads.com/
It requires WMP 10 and a Passport account.
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01-07-2005, 10:09 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Originally Posted by 155
Yeah, I'm a little bit annoyed by that post. The video is appearing on a pda2k in the picture, but the article talks of WMP10.
So evil. I'm pretty upset. :~(
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Sorry about that, I didn't mean to make you sad. Just a little Photoshop fun. jkendrick is right - distributors need to make WMP10 available as an upgrade, not just as a ROM install on new machines.
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01-07-2005, 11:48 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 49
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Yeah, I think it's really too bad that everything can't just be universal like PC's. If you want WM2005 you should just be able to buy it at compusa and drop in a cd.
Need a bluetooth stack just drop in a cd. Maybe someday.
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01-08-2005, 01:44 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 191
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Aren't there already services that do this stuff? Haven't they been around for years? I think they are cheaper too. Besides that, if its anything like their desktop vid selection count me out... who wants to pay money to watch small clips from tv shows and such... those are called advertisments which i try to avoid in general, much less pay for them. Microsoft oh Microsoft, will u ever learn?
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01-08-2005, 02:16 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,959
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Originally Posted by OneAngryDwarf
Aren't there already services that do this stuff? Haven't they been around for years? I think they are cheaper too.
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This is just another service available for mobile device users. In fact, there are quite a few other services out there too. The SmartVideo service I posted on a few hours earlier offers similar features, although a lot less channels.
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01-08-2005, 02:47 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 544
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I guess with the WMP10 requirement they will not sell too many subscriptions which will result in a cancellation of the service. Then a research group will be paid $500K :mrgreen: to conclude that mobile users are just not interested :? in downloading video to their device.
Will Microsoft, and the big corporate World in general, ever get it! :roll:
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