http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/ Engadget Comments for Sony kills Grouper: say hello to Crackle http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/That has non DRM music, now then they would get lots of respect. And a HD movie rental service thats cheaper than the PoS XBL ones would be cool.]]>Jul 16th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/
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You download straight to your hdd.. no guff.]]>Jul 16th 2007 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/As much as a DRM free sollution would be nice, today's age of bullshit makes it near-impossible to do. And they wonder why Piracy is up...]]>Jul 17th 2007 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/
Sony needs to allow their engineers to step outside their labs and let them enjoy the sun a bit. They're putting out products with great potential, but go underutilized because of all the restrictions around them.

Come on Sony, start listening your customers for a change.]]>Jul 16th 2007 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/
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that said - .Mac still sucks. Can't wait until it gets the Google makeover.
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I don't even know where to began to prove you wrong... I don't even think im going to bother... buddy go wiki/google Sony and find out some facts about the company and how their doing, then come back here and provide facts to backup your ignorant statement "Sony hasn't had success since the PS3", ha nice1]]>Jul 17th 2007 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/Jul 17th 2007 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/sony-kills-grouper-say-hello-to-crackle/
Crackle could make you famous, and get you cash. Sounds kinda neat, if they do it right. I wasn't even aware Grouper was owned by Sony. Nor did it do anything more amazing.

Other video-sharing sites that I found that were interesting:

MSN Soapbox: All Flash. Works real nice. Video player stay in one side, and you can search while you watch with no problems. Real slick. Still in beta, but it's real nice: http://soapbox.msn.com/

Viddler - Mainly because the video player is neat, and cna do tons of stuff, and you can embed tags within the video: http://www.viddler.com/

BrightCove - First video-sharing site made for users in mind. Great player, and style: http://www.brightcove.com/

Just thought you might be interested.
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B) Sony has the most intensely piss-poor marketing and public relations. Evar.

C) Sony is renowned for their unwavering stance on DRM, proprietary formats and poor security-software choices.

D) Sony has already proven themselves to be untrustworthy in the blog/vlog community (see B).

E) Although Sony is now marketing a handheld digicam that preformats video to "Crackle" format, who would like to place bets on the ineroperability of their online video formats, the plugins required to use it, or software/membership costs associated with creating/uploading "premium" content (that can be judged/promoted)?

F) Read the fine print before submitting your work, lest you find you've lost all rights to it by handing it over to Sony in perpetuity.

Summary: Sony is a non-web savvy bunch of greedy liars and thieves. Stay away from Crackle and stick to Youtube, Myspace or other free blogs. If your work is good, people will take notice.

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