Tag: streaming
MTV to put every South Park episode online for free
The working day’s about to get quite a bit more bearable, thanks to glorious youth-pleaser MTV doing a MEGABUCKS deal to stick every episode of South Park up on the internet for us all to watch.
And the price to you, brave internet user? Nothing. They’re doing it for free, no doubt in some convoluted readership-expanding, demographic-driving…
Songza music search portal passes the Pet Shop Boys test – global success guaranteed
The Pet Shop Boys test is where you put “Pet Shop Boys” into the search box of the latest fancy-coloured Web 2.0 internet music delivery system. If more than 20 songs come up it has passed the test. Songza managed 25 all-time PSB greats! This means Songza will do well and will be worth $6 billion in three years time. Get in on it NOW.
My Chemical Toilet wants you to stop listening to your iTunes, and give The Hype Machine, Deezer and others a go
You still listen to CDs on your home stereos and discover new music in NME and Uncut? Bah! That’s completely 2004, noobs. Streaming, and discovering, music online is the way forward. Just ask iTunes, MySpace and Last.fm, who are all industry leaders within the market.
But don’t let Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch and the East London boys rule your listening habits. Here’s where our music and festivals blog, My Chemical Toilet, can help you out. Stuart, our man-in-charge-of-the-office-speakers, has gathered…
BBC teams up with Adobe (not Microsoft!) to create Flash-based cross-platform iPlayer
We've already criticised the BBC's iPlayer software for being too restrictive, but now it seems that the BBC Trust's commitment to opening it up might be more than just boardroom talk. The BBC has announced that it's partnered with…
The Hercules MP3 Mobile DJ Preview Edition Digital Mixer
The HMP3MDJPEDM, as we shall call it for the sake of our poor fingers, is taking the old Hercules Mobile DJ Wireless MP3 Mixer and making it even MORE wireless!
Actually no, it isn’t. What Preview Edition brings to the party is the ability to preview your next tune via the supplied cordless headset…
Hack your old Xbox – turn it into the perfect media player
The old Xbox is a sensational machine. Well, it’s a PC in a box you can put under your TV, which makes it ideal for use as a media player – but you have to hack it open first.
A guide over on Lifehacker goes though the step-by-step means to “softmod” your old Xbox…
Winamp 5.5 allows music to be streamed to your Nintendo Wii
As part of Winamp’s resurgence, they’re not just content with ripping off iTunes iPod compatability, oh no, they’re thinking even more outside of the box. Infact, they’re not even thinking about that box on your computer desk which houses all that software, bits, bytes and chips, they’re thinking about an entirely new box. Specifically, your Wii. Don’t get too scared now…
Music is worthless
Gary Cutlack Writes…
Now hang on. I don’t mean the last Muse album was rubbish, so don’t go slagging me off just yet. This column’s actually going to be about how the internet has devalued music, making it a boring, worthless, pointless investment.
Live Earth – live on 3 mobile this weekend
This weekend’s Live Earth charity concert to save the dolphins or ozone layer or whatever, is being broadcast live on 3’s mobile network.
Better still, by watching the concert on your mobile you’ll be doing you bit to help eliminate rain forests…
We are the world's #1 YouTube desk potatoes
Like we needed telling.
Digital bean-counter ComScore has done “the math” and ranked the UK as the world’s biggest viewer of online video.
A staggering 80 percent of UK web users over the age of 15 watched streaming videos of some sort in the UK during April…
