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Download Squad Week in Review

Download Squad logoWe know you've had a busy week, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani. But now that you both have so much more free time on your hands, we thought you might want to spend some time catching up on the news you might have missed this week.

Microsoft seeks to acquire Yahoo!

If you've been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you might not know this yet, but Microsoft has put in an offer to acquire Yahoo!. It's all part of the company's grand scheme to take over the world... before Google does. Microsoft has offered $44.6 billion buyout, and while it's not exactly a done deal yet, there's a pretty decent chance Yahoo! will accept the offer. And we've been meaning to ask, how's the insulation on a rock? Does it keep you warm in the winter?

Ask DLS: Recovering photos from a corrupted flash card

It's happened to all of us. You snap some wonderful vacation photos, or record your child's first steps on your digital camera, only to realize that your flash card is corrupted and you're computer can't make heads or tails of it. Before you reformat the card, take a moment to check out our list of applications for recovering photos from a bad card. All hope might not be lost. Make sure to read the comments too, because many of our readers chimed in with their favorite applications for recovering photo and other data.

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Filed under: Internet, Video, Features, Windows, Macintosh, Linux

Up close with SyncTV: Pioneer's iTunes video killer?



SyncTV is a video download service that's a spinoff of Pioneer Electronics. It differs from pretty much every other digital video distribution service out there in that it offers a nice mix of subscription and pay per download content and SyncTV supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. SyncTV is still in private beta, but we got a chance to check it out over the weekend.

The first thing you notice when you start up SyncTV is that there's not much content to choose from at the moment. We're trying not to hold that against the service, as the company is still in working out content deals. Right now there are a handful of channels of children's and animated content, a channel with classic TV shows like I Spy, an anime channel, and Showtime, currently SyncTV's biggest name partner.

Don't get too excited though, Showtime is only offering up two series at the moment, Dexter and Brotherhood. Hopefully by the time the service launches publicly there'll be more content to choose from.

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Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux

SyncTV: a new video download concept, just add content

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Pioneer spinoff SyncTV launches in private beta today. The service is hardly the first, or even the 30th company trying to get into the video download game. But there are a few things that set SyncTV apart from competitors like Amazon, Apple, and NBC.

First up, although SyncTV uses DRM, the system is pretty flexible. It works with Mac, Linux, and PCs. You can specify up to 5 computers for playing back videos. And once compatible portable media players are released, you'll be able to watch videos on up to 10 different devices.

The service uses a subscription model. Engadget reports you'll pay about $2 to $4 per channel of content you want to subscribe to. A limited number of channels will make their content available on a pay per download basis. But generally, once you shell out the monthly fee, you can download as many episodes as you'd like, even entire seasons of TV programs.

The biggest problem with the service is the same that faces every new startup in this space: a lack of content. The only big name that appears to be attached to SyncTV right now is Showtime. And while we love us some Dexter, it'd be nice to have a bit more variety. Because honestly, we don't feel like signing up with 12 different services just to download the handful of TV shows we're willing to pay to watch.

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