Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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The SD cards only work in a Blockbuster branded set-top box. You can't just pop it into your laptop and watch it. Could this be any more worthless?
oop. assuming you're right, i totally retract my comment below. in that case, yes, this is pretty worthless. sigh. it's like Blockbuster WANTS to die.
In that case, this is not just a fail, it's another epic Blockbuster fail.
From FastCompany:
"Blockbuster is piloting a new movie-rental program that allows customers to load movies onto SD cards and play them back on mobile phones and TVs equipped with SD readers.."
thanks, darren. they also mention using laptops in the FastCompany article, so it seems any card reader will work. i guess i retract my retraction.
http://consumerist.com/5401643/you-will-probably-never-see-a-blockbuster-sd+card-kiosk
They're reporting that this will only work using a proprietary box...
They get it wrong or are we missing something? Not that anyone is going to use it either way.
Read the press release linked by Consumerist.
"The initial technical pilot will facilitate playback on a TV via a digital media player provided to trial participants, and future iterations will allow consumers to move digital content via the SD memory card to a number of portable electronic devices, such as laptops and mobile phones."
@maveric, you need to retract to one more level...
From the HomeMediaMagazine link (click on the pic or the READ link):
"Anthony Bay, CEO of MOD Systems, said the rentals will include a digital media player to facilitate playback, but he expects some consumer electronics devices may still have problems reading the content. He said he hopes that in the next year third-party devices will be readily available to play SD card content on devices that may not have an SD card slot."
The DRM that is used here is NOT on your phone or iPod or Windows media Player. _At this time_ it only exists in the player box that BB or HW will hand you as you're heading out the door.