All’s High and Mighty for Couch-Potatoes
Ever wanted to watch a movie but couldn’t find it in a store or the newspaper’s movie listings? Felt like listening to your old favorite country song but couldn’t remember which hard drive you had stored it in?
Seat back and relax now, because the Leaper is at your service. Vuze, claimed to be the most powerful bittorent client in the world, has outdone itself this time. Last year, Vuze amazed audiences by allowing them to send downloaded video directly to game consoles and iDevices. The company’s latest product, dubbed “Project Leap”, pledges to let you pull media from the internet or any network-connected device right to your TV screen. Simply type in the name of that favourite movie of yours, and the application crawls through your local and attached storage, Hulu, Netfix and Amazon databases for a keyword match, following which you can do whatever it demands: play it, add it to a queue or buy it. Additional bonus features include Rotten Tomatoes reviews and YouTube trailers on the same. If rumour is to be believed, then you might also get a bit close up with Twitter, Fandango and live online chat.
According to Vuze, the current challenge is to find a device manufacturer who will use this application in a set-top box or connected TV. In its present form, the five-button, scrolling, card-based interface seems pretty sleek and simple. Vuze CEO Gilles BianRosa says he would not mind settling for it becoming a Google TV app or Yahoo Widget itself, but stresses on his preference for a “grandmother” easy final combined product. He claims that he has already found some unnamed consumer electronics companies, and even if Leap takes some time to get embedded into hardware, Vuze will definitely release a beta version in September for Mac and PC.![]()




















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