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		<title>Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads brings back the golden age of railroads! Build your own railroad empire choosing from steam powered locomotives to more modern diesel and electric trains. Manage cargo and your enterprise while engaging in corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs and robber barons. Players lay track and route trains, haul raw materials to [...]]]></description>
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<strong>Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads</strong> brings back the golden age of <strong>railroads</strong>! Build your own <strong>railroad empire</strong> choosing from steam powered locomotives to more modern diesel and electric trains. Manage cargo and your enterprise while engaging in corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs and robber barons. Players lay track and route trains, haul raw materials to market, and carry manufactured goods from city to city. <strong>Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads</strong> puts you in charge and can be played as a single player or via the internet against others around the world.<br />
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		<title>Mage Knight Apocalypse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Mage Knight Apocalypse is set in the Mage Knight universe. Players take on the role of one of five guardians, sworn by oath to seek out the heart of evil plaguing the land. Guided by the magical and mysterious race known as the Solonavi, the guardians embark on an epic journey to rescue their world [...]]]></description>
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<strong>Mage Knight Apocalypse</strong> is set in the <strong>Mage Knight universe.</strong> Players take on the role of one of five guardians, sworn by oath to seek out the heart of evil plaguing the land. Guided by the magical and mysterious race known as the <strong>Solonavi</strong>, the guardians embark on an epic journey to rescue their world from the hands of an army of pure evil determined to bring about the <strong>Mage Knight Apocalypse</strong>. The future rests on the shoulders of these noble guardians and the battle to end all battles is about to begin. Join in on the fun.<br />
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		<title>World of Warcraft</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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World of Warcraft is an on line role playing experience set in the award winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. World of Warcraft allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other [...]]]></description>
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<strong>World of Warcraft</strong> is an on line role playing experience set in the award winning <strong>Warcraft universe</strong>. Players assume the roles of <strong>Warcraft heroes</strong> as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. <strong>World of Warcraft</strong> allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.<br />
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		<title>NetMovie Downloads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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With NetMovie Downloads you pay a one time membership fee to access over 100 million available files. No future additional fees guaranteed. With your membership, members receive unlimited movie downloads, spyware and adware with no additional fees. With NetMovie Downloads there is no content, time, or bandwidth limits all with a 3 minute automatic set [...]]]></description>
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With <strong>NetMovie Downloads</strong> you pay a one time membership fee to access over 100 million available files. No future additional fees guaranteed. With your membership, members receive unlimited <strong>movie downloads</strong>, spyware and adware with no additional fees. With <strong>NetMovie Downloads</strong> there is no content, time, or bandwidth limits all with a 3 minute automatic set up. <a href="http://kinger19.themovdwn.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_top">Click here to join!</a></p>
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		<title>Secure Video Downloading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet plays an enormous part of our lives today both at work and at home. As technology advances, computers are no longer used just to send emails and surf the net. They are increasingly becoming multimedia devices that are used as forms of home entertainment. These multimedia devices are now hooked up to large [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Internet plays an enormous part of our lives today both at work and at home. As technology advances, computers are no longer used just to send emails and surf the net. They are increasingly becoming multimedia devices that are used as forms of home entertainment. These multimedia devices are now hooked up to large screen televisions and home theater systems. People and businesses from many different sectors are using <a href="http://webtvgems.com/category/tv/tv-advanced/">video downloading</a> as a method of conveying information to the public. But is video downloading secure?</p>
<p>The answer is yes. Any reputable site will offer a secure log in or membership for video downloading. Any video downloading site should include spyware and adware software to protect your privacy and block any potential virus, ads, or pop ups. If any video downloading site does not provide these protection options, avoid them. There are too many other sites and <a href="http://webtvgems.com/category/movies/get-pc-movies%E2%84%A2/">video downloading</a> options available today.</p>
<p>All products offered by <a href="http://webtvgems.com">WebTVGems.com</a> provide spyware and adware software as part of your membership. This will provide piece of mind that your video downloading is safe and secure.</p>
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		<title>Direct PC TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Watch over 9,000 TV channels from anywhere in the world on your PC or laptop with Direct PC TV. For a one time charge, access to all these Direct PC TV channels could be yours. No monthly fees, re-occurring membership dues, complicated downloads, waiting for service to be activated, and no more fighting with family [...]]]></description>
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<p>Watch over 9,000 TV channels from anywhere in the world on your PC or laptop with Direct PC TV. For a one time charge, access to all these Direct PC TV channels could be yours. No monthly fees, re-occurring membership dues, complicated downloads, waiting for service to be activated, and no more fighting with family members over the TV. With Direct PC TV, watch what you want to watch, when you want. Direct PC TV works on all Windows versions and all MAC computers that have Windows Media installed. Start watching your favorite shows today! <a href="https://paydotcom.com/r/9911/Rebatestoday11/20775608/">Click here to buy!</a></p>
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		<title>Streaming vs. TV Advanced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an excerpt of a TV streaming article describing the difficulties found when they attempted TV streaming. This gives a good summary of the reasons why not to download network internet TV shows but become a member of TV Advanced.
&#8220;People are watching more network internet TV shows and I wondered what it would be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Below is an excerpt of a<strong> </strong>TV streaming article describing the difficulties found when they attempted <a href="http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">TV streaming</a>. This gives a good summary of the reasons why not to download network internet TV shows but become a member of <a href="http://webtvgems.com/category/tv/tv-advanced/">TV Advanced</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;People are watching more network internet TV shows and I wondered what it would be like to be one of them. I&#8217;m the first to admit I&#8217;m not crazy about watching anything longer than three minutes on my PC monitor—even after upgrading to a 24-inch 1080p NEC. Still, I couldn&#8217;t resist TV streaming an hour of Star Trek from CBS.com. I figured if I could get through season one, episode one—&#8221;The Man Trap&#8221;—I might do a few more. Slow data rate and low res were givens. My first frustration beyond that was that the Adobe Flash Player wouldn&#8217;t let me upscale for a full screen image. That meant I had to either stick to my desk chair or squint at a postcard sized image from my armchair across the room. Buffering errors interrupted the flow of the program three or four times&#8230;&#8230;.Altogether, I won&#8217;t do it again unless I can get a full screen image and a reasonable ratio between program and ad sound levels. These are solvable problems. Over to you, CBS.&#8221;</p>
<p>All the difficulties listed above will not be found with <a href="http://webtvgems.com/category/tv/tv-advanced/">TV Advanced</a>. You will have a full screen image and there are no buffering errors because with TV Advanced your TV show is downloaded directly to your hard drive vs &#8220;TV streaming&#8221;. <a href="http://webtvgems.com/category/tv/tv-advanced/">Click here to join TV Advanced!</a></p>
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		<title>Download History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a reprint of a May, 2006 article on the history of media downloads. As you read through this, we found it interesting how quickly the industry has evolved from limited available shows, each for a price, to where we are today with unlimited download access to any TV show for one price. Enjoy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a reprint of a May, 2006 article on the history of media downloads. As you read through this, we found it interesting how quickly the industry has evolved from limited available shows, each for a price, to where we are today with unlimited download access to any <a href="http://webtvgems.com/category/tv/tv-advanced/">TV show</a> for one price. Enjoy the history lesson!</p>
<p>&#8220;Downloadable television, first made popular by Tivo and its competitors, is compelling stuff. As consumers become accustomed to watching a show whenever they choose, pausing at will and fast tracking through commercials, tuning in to a station at a scheduled broadcast time seems quaint at best. Today, 7% of U.S. households have a digital video recorder, or DVR and most cable companies offer a DVR as an option.</p>
<p>While DVR&#8217;s are great, content producers and distributors are less than thrilled by the loss in revenue from all those skipped commercials. Also, DVR’d shows cannot be easily transferred to mobile devices or otherwise viewed away from their home television. Some consumers want more flexibility and options.</p>
<p>Enter downloadable television, spearheaded by iTunes.</p>
<p>On October 12 2005, Apple introduced iTunes 6.0 which added support for purchasing and viewing of video content from the iTunes Music Store. iTunes initially offered a selection of several thousand music videos and five TV shows, including most notably ABC’s Lost and Desperate Housewives, as well as the collection from past seasons. New shows are available 24 hours after the initial broadcast. Since that time, the collection has expanded with NBC Universal, USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel shows, and Viacom, in addition to further Disney-owned networks’ shows. iTunes also gives the ability to view Apple’s large collection of movie trailers. Format for purchased Videos is 128 kbit/s Protected MPEG-4 video.</p>
<p>By January 2006, iTunes offered over 40 television shows for download, including, most recently, additions from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV with episodes of such shows as the Daily Show, Spongebob Squarepants, South Park, and Punk’d. Showtime added some content in February.</p>
<p>The networks, though, are hoping that iTunes will not be the only way people watch TV on their computers. CBS, Fox and ABC are all experimenting with their own direct downloads or streaming.</p>
<p>ABC is offering streaming versions of a number of its hit shows to viewers within the U.S. for no charge: Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias, and Commander in Chief. The shows are viewable in 400×700 Flash format. On the plus side, ABC’s offering is browser and platform agnostic, and are free. On the minus side, and these are big ones, you must be online to view the show. You can’t take these with you on a laptop or other device and watch them while on a plane, or otherwise offline. Also, there are a number of short commercials that cannot be skipped. So in the end, ABC is offering a nice way for me to watch time-shifted shows on my PC-enabled television, but not much else.</p>
<p>CBS is going with downloads, through their CBS On Demand project. Only a single show is currently offered - Survivor - and you must be in the U.S. to use the service. Quality is 640×480 pixels. Shows cost $.99 and must be watched within 24 hours of downloading (again, not a very good option for travelers). You must have a Windows PC to view the shows. They cannot be burned to dvd. Frankly, with all of these limitations I’m surprised they even let you watch the show, period. It’s like they’re begging to fail so that they can say “hey, see, we tried, people don’t want this.” Note that CBS is also experimenting with shows on Google Video.</p>
<p>NBC is offering a number of shows through iTunes, but has no direct to consumer offering. They offer thirteen shows on iTunes, including The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Saturday Night Live, The Apprentice, Law and Order, Scrubs and The Office, as well as a number of vintage shows.</p>
<p>Fox is shaking things up a bit. In April they announced a six year deal with their affiliates to allow them to show back catalog shows on the internet. They are also starting to roll out downloads of the show “24&#8243; through their Myspace property, but I am unable to find much information on it yet.</p>
<p><strong>SUMMARY</strong></p>
<p>It’s going to be a while before the service models are compelling enough for the world to turn away en masse from today’s TV, but it’s clear we’re at the start of a major disruption that will shake content producers (the networks) and the distributors (cable) to the core.</p>
<p>Nothing is close to challenging iTunes yet for downloadable tv dominance (well, except bittorent and DVR&#8217;s), and it’s unlikely a single network will be able to do much to overcome them. People want to be able to consume their content in one place, and iTunes does a very good job of allowing that. It’s simple, has some flexibility with regard to moving to a device and the shows do not “expire”. The real competition to iTunes is still to come: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Amazon, among others, will have product offering in this space sooner or later. (Note: AOL is already streaming a number of vintage television shows to users).</p>
<p>Business models need to change. Content producers cannot rely on network deals, 30 second advertising and, later, dvd sales, to pull in the revenue. Shows will have to stand on their own, and will probably need to be free for the first few episodes to pull in viewers who may eventually be willing to pay. Frankly, I look forward to the day that a show, ignored by the networks, first decides to launch itself on iTunes and go straight to consumers. The press around it would be overwhelming. The first to do it will have a big advantage.</p>
<p>There is a market for third party service providers, too. Services like Meevee are starting to bridge the gap between providing online television listing information and allowing people to actually view the content on their computers. Cozmo.tv and Brightcove are allowing people to control their Tivo’s through their browser. And how long will it be before MobiTV, which currently streams television to mobile devices, is able contractually to simply flip a switch and offer streaming television direct to a PC? They are already making moves in that direction, and Orb offers a similar, free service.&#8221;</p>
<p>by <a title="Posts by Neil Kjeldsen" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/author/neil/">Neil Kjeldsen</a> on May 22, 2006</p>
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