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Sandisk launched free video download service

Posted on 23.10.2007 at 11:15 in Tech News by Martin

SanDisk Corp introduced on Monday a service for downloading free and advertising-supported video from the Internet, which could compete with Apple Inc’s iTunes. SanDisk said its new system, called “Fanfare,” serves as a companion to the Sansa TakeTV PC-to-TV Video Player, a pocket-sized memory module which it also introduced on Monday. The device lets users save videos downloaded onto a personal computer and move them to a traditional television. Fanfare, now in the early “beta” stage, will be launched as a full version early next year.

“The overall vision of Fanfare is to enable users to draw from a rich catalog of free and paid video content from a single location for playback on a wide variety of portable devices in the future,” SanDisk said in a statement. The only major U.S. network affiliated with the service at launch is CBS Corp’s CBS and its pay-tv unit, Showtime Networks, with shows such as “CSI” and “Dexter.” Fanfare will also have videos from Smithsonian Networks, The Weather Channel and TV Guide Broadband. It looks that Asian managers are really more clever than most of American CEOs, who prefer to sue, fight and lose in the piracy battle, while more and more companies rather choose the “make-it-free” approach.

Source: Reuters 

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  1. nompon
    October 23rd, 2007 | 11:35

    Looks cool. Watch out youtube!!

  2. Tal Ater
    October 23rd, 2007 | 11:45

    http://www.fanfare.com/

  3. henry
    October 23rd, 2007 | 11:58

    Seems that you need to buy a TakeTV device for it to work.

  4. Reality
    October 23rd, 2007 | 14:31

    I hope Sandisk is better at this than they are in responding to mail-in rebates for their products. Buyer Beware!!

  5. kingpin
    October 23rd, 2007 | 14:51

    don´t know why, but when i activated java for fanfare.com my computer shut down…..not good i think ;)

  6. YeahRight
    October 23rd, 2007 | 15:41

    My god, it’s true. You people honestly don’t understand that there ain’t no such thing as ‘free’, do you? Anyone past the age of twelve should…

    Oh, wait, I guess that explains it.

    Oh, and that had to be the dumbest US bashing this site has ever seen… And for this site that is truly saying something.

  7. haha
    October 23rd, 2007 | 15:47

    yea no kidding, ppl think that its gonna be free?! U.S. rox! respect

  8. Historian
    October 23rd, 2007 | 16:12

    Torrent movies is free :P

  9. mo
    October 23rd, 2007 | 17:19

    this would be great if i had a TakeTV emulator.

    Otherwise, rlslog + µtorrent FTW!

  10. Eric
    October 23rd, 2007 | 19:16

    Holds up to 8Gb LOL:)

  11. AceHBK
    October 23rd, 2007 | 19:18

    Aren’t you abe to do this now wih any flash drive?? Just download a show, pt it on your flash drive and thenstick the flash drive into your TV (if it has a usb port of corse).

    I have a Pioneer elite plasma and I do that now.

  12. insolitus
    October 23rd, 2007 | 23:08

    hey guys! use http://in.solit.us/ (big file and fast server) instead of rapidshare!! share this with your uploader friends!

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