With the many Zune video downloads today, it is clear that Zune is not just another portable media device in the market. According to the National Purchase Diary Group January 2007 report, Zune ranks third among the best selling media gadgets. Downloading multi-format video content is just one of the many reasons why people buy Zune.
Zune can play .mov and wmv.
When Zune first entered the market, a lot of people are guessing that there is no way it can play QuickTime movies and videos with a MOV format. The reason is simple. QuickTime's owner is Apple. So is iPod. And iPod is a direct competitor to Zune, a product of Microsoft. However, this is a misleading perception. The Zune is powerful enough to play WMV, Windows Media Video and MOV files. Other than these, the MPEG family of MP4 and MP4V are all playable on the device.
This flexibility allows Zune to dominate a large part of the video market. Video enthusiasts like the idea of plug and play which is pretty much the case for a Zune player. You really do not need to buy any video converter to convert the video file format from one to another just so that it is readable by the portable media device.
Zune software can be used to effectively manage your library of Zune video downloads.
The Zune software is also capable of organizing and managing your video library. Categorizing and tagging your Zune vide downloads is easy and convenient. The software is the perfect tool to sync or automatically update the video files on your Zune whenever updates are made available. If you are a video podcast or internet TV subscriber, then you will really appreciate its convenience.
With media syncing, you don't have to wait for the new video episode to arrive to update your device. Once a new episode comes in, the file will be downloaded both into your PC and your Zune media player.
Zune also allows video sharing with other users.
Another remarkable feature is the Zune Social, a wireless capability that allows you to share information about your latest Zune video downloads and playbacks. You can activate the Zune Social so that your device can detect other Zune players within a close range. Then you will be able to know what the other Zune owner is playing in his device right now. But that's not enough!
Imagine the excitement of finding a cool video? You would love to share it and that is where Zune Social steps in to help. You can easily broadcast your video playlist and downloads through flash widgets. Place that on your social networking profiles like MySpace and FaceBook and you can let the whole world know about this interesting video you just downloaded.
Thought downloading and watching videos were the only things you can do with Zune? Do more than just downloading. It's time to diversify, manage, update, sync up, and share your Zune video downloads.
Video Downloads For Zune
Earlier this year Apple pushes for and gets removal of DRM (digital rights management) from music and video downloads on Itunes. Just as Bit Torrent goes head to head with Itunes on video downloads.
In February Bit Torrent Inc, the internet company founded by Bram Cohen opened it's new entertainment web site.
For those who don't know about Bit Torrent yet, it is a protocol, that can be used free of charge to download large files quickly over the internet using very little band width, It was invented by Bram Cohen. (to learn about bit torrent and how it works go to see the resources box at the end of this article)
Last year Cohen's company entered into agreements with several movie companies among them Paramount, Warner Brothers, MGM,20th Century Fox and MTV networks. This was the ground work for them to build their business model for a broad market video download service. MTV is a key company because of it's market demographics.
Apple was quick to follow suit and made it's own agreements with various movie companies.
This latest effort by Bit Torrent will offer a strong competition to Apple's Itunes as well as other movie download sites, such as ,Walmart and don‘t forget DirectTV and cable on demand services.
What Bit Torrent offers is rental downloads, purchase downloads and some free downloads. It also offers an opportunity for you to publish your own torrents. Very attractive to new producers of video content. This appears to be a move to create a home for original content providers at the Bit Torrent web site.
You might say that is all well and good but how do I watch the content on my big screen TV? Good question.
Two months ago Bit Torrent announced it's partnership with the company Netgear , which has developed a small inexpensive interface cable box to use to transfer your movies, video and other content from your computer to your TV. Hmm…. sounds a lot like Apple TV.
In an interview on CNBC May 3, 2007 Patrick Lo, the chief executive of Netgear said that Netgear's plan is to use it's wireless networks in the home to drive content from the internet to the home TV and make everyone's home a wireless network.
Not so fast Bit Torrent; last week Apple counters with , what else, video on demand.
London's financial Times wrote an article indicating that Apple would be offering a video on demand download service in the Fall. And the downloads would be rentals that would cost $2.99. These rental downloads would be good for thirty days and could be shared on one or more of Apple's devices, Apple TV, iphone or ipod.
This latest move by Apple seems to have placed Apple and Bit Torrent in direct competition with all other video on demand services, which include Amazon's service, Netflix service and the cable and direct TV companies services.
The gamble would appear to be for Apple and Bit Torrent to drive these other services to a point where they are marginal players and for one of them, that is Bit Torrent or Apple to emerge as the consumer favorite for video and internet content downloads and streaming wirelessly.
A question arises; where is Microsoft in all this? Are they missing the boat again? Or just waiting for the dust to clear?
Hollywood is placing bets on as many power players as it can; hence the agreements with both Bit Torrent and Apple waiting to see who comes out on top.
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