Wednesday, January 6, 2010

All movies available in SD now!

The last month we've been working on a number of new features which users have been requesting. Some of them are still under work, and while some features are ready, they will still undergo some further testing before available live. However, we are happy to announce that all +1,000 movies (Yes, we hit that milestone just less than a week ago!) are now also available in SD, for the people who may not have fast enough internet connections to stream the HD movies without buffering, or lack the hardware requirements to be able to do so. This does in no way mean that we'd lower the quality of our current streams, we just wish to give an alternative to the users who may have trouble with streaming currently. To enable/disable the HD/SD content, click the button below the video content (bottom right). Please note that new movies may not have a SD stream version available for a few hours after its release, in which case the option won't be available to choose.

We've also been working on the Movies page to make the browsing easier by providing alternative sorting options as well as improved pagination, and we'd love to hear your comments on it as well as any suggestions you may still have.

We made some changes to the commenting system for movies, but for users this should merely seem like a visual change. We will soon be fixing our forums to be more user-friendly with a similar format. If you encounter any issues with the new features, please report them to us.

Finally, we are working on an embeddable solution for websites to use. Along with it, we will provide a data API which can be accessed for data regarding movies, and we would like to hear your ideas and requests of features which you'd want available in the data API.

7 comments:

  1. we also managed to automate the encoding of the movies which will help in getting movies faster up and save us a lot of time.

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  2. gj guys
    This excellent innovation. Continue in the same spirit ;)

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  3. Thanks, good news for people with bad computers. :lol:

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  4. Quick question, which one is default SD or HD? Can it be an option in the user control panel, I'd prefer to see all of mine in HD.

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  5. I think default it's HD so no problem for you i think. ;)

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  6. it should always be "the last selected"

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  7. You know it's PLDX when Standard Definition is a feature

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