Amazon Unbox: free BBC downloads this month

I'm not a fan of video DRM, but I grudgingly accept it in a couple of places, including Amazon Unbox. And this month, Unbox is giving away free BBC classics downloads, which makes trying out the service especially easy. The free downloads are all classic Shakespeare movies, and they're only available on the weekends (though you have a month to watch them). This weekend is The Tempest. Worth checking out...happy Shakespeare festival!

(Note: in non-DRM related news, my Neuros OSD is AWESOME. I just realized while watching this that I hadn't really given a review of it. I'll have to make sure I do that soon. Even my wife likes it! *grin*)

posted by Ken Kennedy at Feb 29th 2008 8:57 p.m.

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  1. Joseph DeCarlo commented 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    I am looking forward to your review of the Neuros OSD. I have been looking for a solution much like this and am curious of your opinion. Have you had experience with other media centers or is this your first?

    Joe.

  2. Ken commented 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    You're freaking me out with all these comments, dude. *grin* (I'll have to work on my Neuros review for sure now.) WRT other media centers, I ran a MythTV box for a couple of years before I got the Neuros. It's (IMO) the gold standard for this stuff, if you're willing to trick it out properly, which I'm not. I suffered from buying a poor tuner card, and being too cheap to fix that issue...I never had the performance and quality that I could have. And my mini-ITX box was loud, which sucked.

    I could have taken my lessons learned and built out a really nice box, but the Neuros is almost as hackable, quiet, and cheaper.

 
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