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Zinc Beta 3 is a better multimedia web browser
by Brad Linder Mar 24th 2009 at 9:45AM
Zinc started out its life as the interface for a hardware set top box that ZeeVee wanted to charge $499 for. That business model didn't really pan out, so the company split is focus and started working on a $2500 enterrprise hardware solution that lets companies like hotels stream HD content throughout the building and the free Zinc media browser.
Version 3 which came out today has a smoother interface, more detailed information about videos and channels, and content from new sources including The CW, Revision3, and Netflix. You can either install Zinc as a standalone application or download and install a Firefox extension that will let you launch the Zinc interface from within Firefox 3.
Right now Zinc is Windows only, but a Mac version is due out next month.
[via NewTeeVee]
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stevelintott said 8:15AM on 3-25-2009
Ok so i thought i'll give this a go. First i live in France so i could not even watch 80% of the content. This site just re-directs you to the studios original sites. So the programming is very weak. There are other sites who do this much better, (joox; silverscreen,);
Also why go to a site like this when you can download everything on Bitorrent and have full episodes not the promos and behind the scenes rubbish.
Why would anyone want to pay for this , i do not know!!!!!
If they get their act together and make deals with the studios direct maybe they will have a chance.
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Jon Doe. said 1:31PM on 3-28-2009
Well its a good thing there is a link to the damn software or this would suck...oh wait.
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Brad Linder said 1:33PM on 3-28-2009
Actually, there are three links to the software. Click the picture, click the word "Zinc" at the start of the article, or click the "Source" link at the bottom of the article.