If he can prove these fleeting video bits draw in the men, he doubtlessly will attract imitators and could get bought--or squashed--by the big guys.
Which, since video consumes more bits per second than just about anything, is of course great news for companies that make networking gear.
But unlike YouTube-style Flash video, which fetches streamed bits in a series of requests from a set of servers at the sender's end, Move gets bits from the closest storage cache (similar to technology from Web video giant Akamai) and brings them back to the screen at the best streaming rate based on the network's traffic load.
That bust of Duke may be one of the best bits of video game swag ever.
It has moon rocket manuals, sound clips and bits of video of the first men to the moon.
Finally, end the third trilogy with a story about the Joker taking over Arkham Asylum, and use influences from both the famous graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and a few bits from the video game Arkham City.
The two slivers of encoded bits are rejoined to the bigger, unscrambled video stream before it hits the home.
In the end it's like watching a video with a prudish nanny who knows where the naughty bits are and covers your ears or eyes at the right moments.
The company seems to be proving that consumers like streaming video, and that it simply is a lot less expensive to ship consumers digital bits rather than physical atoms.
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The old cable box decrypts its set of data and discards the Passage bits, while a Passage-enabled box decrypts only the Passage-encoded video.
In the end it's like watching a video with a prudish nanny who's seen this flick before, knows where the naughty bits are and covers your ears or eyes at the right moments.
The chief of Kynikos Associates warned that the video game retailer is in a business being destroyed by digital distribution as the cost of transmitting and storing bits of information heads toward zero.
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