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Tuesday April 5, 2005 1:42 pm
MTV Overdrive Broadband Video Service
MTV has launched a beta version of their new broadband digital entertainment service called MTV Overdrive. Using the service, you are able to download the latest news, music, live performances, short form shows and music videos directly to your PC. All of the media is DRM protected. As the site describes:
The videos on MTV Overdrive are encoded in Microsoft Windows Media 10 format to insure the maximum possible video quality. In order to offer you a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect the videos from unauthorized re-distribution. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not currently support DRM. When DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV Overdrive will work to support Macintosh.
So, Mac users are going to have to look elsewhere for now. Still, it is always cool to see more services offering free video content. One other negative - the service mus tbe used with Internet Explorer, as Firefox is not compatible.
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And they think people will pay for this? LOL!
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Yhink it is for free, cant find where to register thoguht
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Taken from there FAQ:
Do I have to pay to use MTV Overdrive?
MTV Overdrive is a totally free service. You do not need to pay to use MTV Overdrive.
So no they dont think people will pay.
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How do I register? Does anyone have a username/pw that they don’t mind sharing? Thanks
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MTV is a multi-million dollar operation with their Overdrive website being one of the worst streaming video sites I’ve come across. Who ever designed their MTV Overdrive represents the ‘Peter Principle’ in action. For those who don’t know, the Peter Principle is a theory originated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter which states that employees within a hierarchical organization after having advanced to their highest level of competence, are then promoted to a level where they are incompetent, and then stay in that position. Who ever designed the Overdrive site was obviously promoted to the height of their incompetence!
When it lets me use Foxfire at 800x600 res and doesn’t require a ‘video optimizer’ be installed I might actually come back and use it. I’m not holding my breath. Good luck to all you Mac users.
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How do I connect to / download MTV Overdrive. I cant seem to find out how do use it. please help?
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it uses windows video 9 not ten
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