Filed under: Cult of Mac, The Woz
Apple founders film released as DRM-free download
TUAW reader Steve pointed us to this article about "In Search of Silicon Valley". It's a film about a trio (Steve O'Hear, Fleeta Siegel and Selwyn George) who travels from London to Silicon Valley, tracks down Apple pioneers Woz, Hertzfeld, Raskin, and Kawasaki as well as other net luminaries like Tim O'Reilly and Dan Kottke, and talks with them. The film takes place over the period of a month and the discussions range all over the place. You can read reviews at TechCrunch and Kirkville.
After a limited DVD distribution, they've decided to release the film via Streamburst, a site that allows consumers to buy video without DRM. The download will set you back a very reasonable #3.99 (about $8 in US currency), though I'm not sure if the online version will include the DVD extras (about 30 more minutes of interviews on top of the 55 minute film). You can view the trailer at their storefront. Other Streamburst films include "Long Way Round", a TV series with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman that I've been meaning to watch for forever, and Race to Dakar about the 2006 Dakar Rally.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adam said 12:43PM on 2-26-2007
I believe you mean £3.99, not #3.99.
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Jub said 1:04PM on 2-26-2007
damn it ADAM! some keyboards just don't have that squiggley pound key. :)
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Sean Flanagan said 1:23PM on 2-26-2007
Jub, last time I checked (which is in 3, 2, 1...), £ is option-3 on a US Mac... :-D
And Erica, "Long Way Round" was superb. One of the best pieces of television I've ever watched.
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Nick said 2:34PM on 2-26-2007
# isn't a currency sign.
For the currency symbol for a pound sterling (£) you need character entity reference 163. (That's if you're serving your document as ISO 8859-1 - or UTF-8 (which is what you're declaring in the header).)
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/guide/entities.html
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Seb Payne said 4:19PM on 2-26-2007
You mention extras - if you look there is an extras section of the site where you can buy extended Woz interview and extra interviews. From the clip, it reminds me of an updated Triumph of the Nerds. Has anyone bought it? Comments?
Bravo to the producers for releasing this in the DRM-free manner. True Nerds.
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Zeno Davatz said 3:20AM on 2-27-2007
I just bought the DVD, quite curious what it is like. Will take some time till I receive it.
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H. Greene said 1:55AM on 4-01-2007
Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know I ordered a Steve Wozniak signed copy of iwoz off the www.woz.org site and it is fantastic. I read the book and just love the all the background stories.
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