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Episode #70

We are very thankful for all of our listeners and fans.  With out you, the show just simply would not be.  As a Thanksgiving treat here is something I found on the 9to5mac blog that I just had to share.

When geek meets hip-hop?

Ok, now if this really is coming out you can bet that we will implement this somehow for the Smackdown.  We would certianly use this somehow to do a live stream of the show.  Tell us what you think.

Not that I have a formal opinion about this yet myself.  But here is an interesting development in the world of digital video.  From Appleinsider…”Afraid that Apple will gain the sort of lock on downloadable video that it did with music, Sony and a group of video business heavyweights are planning a new standard that would let copy protected movies and TV from any participating service work with many devices..

Officially, the goal is to create an interoperable but still locked down approach to distributing videos online where buyers or renters could simply assume that an online video could work. As long as a device is in the user’s “domain,” content would play. In a presentation on DECE obtained by AppleInsider, Sony also claims that such a system would create a much more consistent rights environment: customers wouldn’t face shifting copy limits if they choose to switch stores, while many stores today are ultimately balkanized.”

Catch the full article here.