Fixing Movies Online
20-Sep-06
So I’m not even going to touch delivery to the living room, because that’s still a big question (but Tivo + Netflix is a match made in heaven).
iTunes is getting pretty close to giving people what they want when it comes to downloadable movies, but they *still* complain about the time it takes to download the movie. They want to start streaming it now, it takes too long to download. Who cares? Its a frickin’ movie!
How do we fix it? Turn on the netflix stylee:
Give people a queue, and give them a delivery box (amazon Unboxed was close)- some kind of app that is not a web browser. The box runs in the background and gives you a little “shelf” that shows the titles you have. You watch the titles and send them back. Then they deliver you the next title in your queue.
The real key here is get rid of instant on video, and get rid of progress bars! Have people play with their queues and make sure they know when their media is “delivered”.
We’re just shifting the netflix model onto the net. We’re shifting people’s expectations from “instant on” to “Netflixing” their movies. Watch them when they arrive, send them back when they’re done- all online.
Popularity: 13% [?]
Radio 9-11 Mondays (Including tonight)
18-Sep-06
1. Mew - The Zookeeper’s Boy (4:43)
2. Rundgren, Todd - Just One Victory (4:58)
3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - The Drummer (4:56)
4. Arthur Russell - The Platform On The Ocean (8:04)
5. Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene (5:35)
6. Fallen Angels - A Horn Playing On My Thin Wall (4:22)
7. Harper, Roy - She’s the One (6:57)
8. Helium - Baby Vampire Made Me (5:50)
9. Hukkelberg, Hanne - cast anchor (4:15)
10. Jack Rose - 2 º Cross The North Fork (7:26)
11. Kraftwerk - Tour De France 03 - Etape 1 (4:27)
12. Nels Cline Trio - Pants (for Polly Jean) (6:17)
13. Relay - Safe (2:53)
14. Scatter - smokinEdit / smokinEdit (5:35)
15. Seam - Sweet Pea (3:33)
16. Six Organs Of Admittance - Bless Your Blood (5:57)
17. Thompson, Mayo - Horses (3:14)
18. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun (4:01)
19. United States of America - Love Song for a Dead Che (3:27)
20. Zombi - Sessuale (3:39)
21. Vincent Gallo - Her smell theme (Reprise) (2:21)
22. Vashti Bunyan - Here Before (2:05)
23. My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When (5:31)
Popularity: 16% [?]
WPTS 9-11-06
12-Sep-06
- Archer Prewitt Way of the Sun Wilderness
- The Gentle Waves Hangman in the Shadow The Green Fields of Foreverland
- Peter Jefferies Scattered Logic electricity
- Alastair Galbraith Bone Idle Morse
- The Foundry Field Recordings Assembled Hazardly prompts/miscues
- Mastadon The Wolf is Loose Radio Sampler
- Guvner Almond Roca Hard for Measy for You
- The 3ds Philadelphia Rising The Venus Trail
- The Bats Halfway to Nowhere Silverbeet
- The Dead C Head Tusk
- Bailter Space EIP Robot World
- Jesu star silver
- The Killers When You Were Young When You Were Young
- Thee Speaking Canaries Any Three Days Songs for the Terrestrially Challenged
- Burning Star Core Nylarthotep The Very Heart of the World
- The Sea Like Lead interlude 1/last vestiges of rust s/t
- Sufjan Stevens The Henny Buggy Band The Avalanche
- The Clean Tally Ho! Compilation
- Mew The Zookeper’s Boy And the Glass Handed Kites
- TRS-80 The Lights Are On Mystery Crash
- Go Betweens The Wrong Road Bellavista Terrace
- Small Factory A Suggestion The Industrial Evolution
- The Cakekitchen Prophet of the Underground The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea
- kaki king jessica …until we felt red
- bonnie “prince” billy cursed sleep cursed sleep
Nothing to point you to this week, unfortunately.
Popularity: 16% [?]
