The world as frankps sees it!
Movies
I just love movies, and simply cannot get enough of them. My favourite movies are from China and Europe.
Voddler coming to Norway
0I have been a paying customer over at Spotify for a few months, and I’m absolutely thrilled about how great the service work. It’s a kind of cloud computing that I like and it completely changed how I listen to music. I haven’t bought a single CD since I signed up.
I love watching movies, and have had Betamax, VHS, DVD and HD DVD systems through the years, and I am currently using Blu-ray as my preferred way of watching movies. I realize that I basically have had all the movie systems released for the consumer market. Now I wonder if Voddler can change the way we watch movies? iTMS still doesn’t sell TV shows or movies in Norway, so Voddler can get most of the market for themselves. And I guess they are going for it, as Voddler is to launch a beta version in Norway later this spring. I have flagged my interest a few months ago, if you also are interested to try it out, then sign up for a Voddler Norway account on Voddler´s website. According to Voddler, invites will be handed out in queue order.
Another one bites the dust
02 years ago
Not all Web 2.0 services make it. And not everything Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, founders of Skype, touch turns to gold. They are, according to IDG.se, pulling the plug on Joost. There are not many video solutions that have really succeeded in this area, Youtube and Vimeo, are not direct competitors. And Hulu is only available in U.S, iPlayer from BBC only in U.K, other services are also not available worldwide. But I can see that the amount of national services made it difficult for Joost.
Their service was cool, but lacked serious content. I often felt that I was running a demo of what the application was capable of doing. The video streams had and have a high quality, often better then their competitors. I didn’t mind running it as a standalone application, nor directly from a browser. I just wanted content…
Dead Snow – Ein, Zwei, Die
0Watched the Norwegian movie Død Snø (Dead Snow) on DVD today. It had it’s premiere yesterday in the U.S. Dead Snow was one of the biggest hits at the Sundance Film Festival.
Some my readers will perhaps remember that Tommy Wirkola made another great movie that I wrote about, Kill Buljo.
Season 3 of IT-Crowd is out on DVD
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I am a great fan of the IT-Crowd and also have the two first seasons on DVD. Today I bought the 3rd season over at Play.com. The emmy award winning IT Crowd is back!
Whilst Reynholm Industries boss, Douglas, is spending the pension fund on gold flakes in the water supply, the dysfunctional IT department – Moss, Roy and Jen – build up the courage to face the frightening world of people who somehow communicate without using a keyboard.
As well as the usual bickering, time wasting and incompetence, the co-dependent trio become the victims of sexual harassment, create a fundraising nude erotic calendar, confront the builders from hell and join a social networking site.
Episodes Comprise:
- From Hell
- Are We Not Men?
- Tramps Like Us
- Speech
- Friendface
- Calendar Geeks