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Tips for Downloaders...

As we've had an enourmous upturn in subscribers recently, we thought we'd give all you frustrated movie lovers some tips to get watching/downloading our films. Especially DivX, which although great once you get going, does take a little tweaking to set you off! So DON'T PANIC - first make sure you read our 'How It Works' 

Remember you can try one of our Free Films to get going! Common support issues seem to range from not having the player installed, not registering a DivX account, not having a fast enough connection, not having enough system RAM, or trying to download from outside the UK & Ireland. The latest player, version 7, has improved performance... films should start playing once the download has reached 5%! Another useful tip is if the film should hang and stop downloading then simply close the player and re-open it whereupon you can click the download mananger, highlight the film, right click and retry the download... it'll resume automatically otherwise anyway. There's a new version of the DivX player which may involve you having to re-login to your account once installed. And there's a whole range of great Video tutorials you can check out... like how to configure your PS3 or transfer media to any DivX certified device. Or how to watch on your TV.           

DivX

As we're in the process of integrating the DivX platform into our site, perhaps some of you would like to partake in the live testing phase... Mac and PC. You need to be in the UK and of course have a suitable broadband connection.
All feedback is much appreciated so if you're interested in some Free Movie Rental Downloads over the coming weeks, get back to us using the contact page on the main site.

CES

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has recently happened again and is now becoming THE place for launching new techie intiatives, although Steve Jobs would have you think otherwise with Macworld in the shadows. So whether your a gadget junkie or a serious developer you can see all the demos and news here. Or watch Bill Gates keynote speech.
OK, here's Steve Jobs as well... telling you three stories from his life!

Tech Update

Lots of people asking us what on earth we're doing with all this download activity.... just what we've always done in-so-far as content is concerned, Art-House and Foreign Films. As regards all the back-end stuff, well it's fairly standard technology to date... Microsoft DRM, Sale/Rental, shared revenue, Progressive Downloads etc.
But is it though? Who else is offering Progressive in the UK, and who else is encoding movies at 2mb? And who else allows unlimited play for the licence period - not to mention a 'no fuss' re-download of media!
What's next? Well, we're biding our time, aggregating more content and forging many new relationships in this emerging sector. We're also developing more sites and enabling existing ones with our platform via our api. If your reading this and haven't yet tried one of our films... try it, there's some excellent cinema on our site and it really does work!
Before too long you'll be reading this from your TV screen anyway - or watching TV from your PC monitor, as the two merge and TVs have installed browsers etc.
Monetization via Ad-led free content and subscription models will become inevitable, if only as an alternative. And the next phase in U3 USB technology? Can't wait...  as for mobiles, well, anyone tried the i-phone yet? It seems logical that mobiles will increasingly become storage devices for all things media - DRM'd or otherwise.

Seen this Intel Ad?