On today’s podcast Colin and I discuss the hard realities for Hollywood studios and theaters that even the ever-resourceful James Bond can’t solve. While anything is possible, it is unlikely the movie will ultimately be profitable, at least based on the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, the movie has currently grossed approximately $331 million worldwide. Assuming a 50% take on box office sales, that would mean $800 million of overall ticket sales. So MGM, the movie’s studio, would need to make approximately $400 million to break even. The new James Bond movie “No Time to Die” reportedly cost $250 million to produce and another $150 million to promote. Highly recommended.Welcome to this week’s edition of Inside the Stream, the podcast where nScreenMedia’s Chief Analyst Colin Dixon and I take listeners inside the world of streaming video. I think it's a great buy for just $10, given all that it does, and best of all, it doesn't overtax my machine that way desktop screen savers, for example, seem to do. The interface is easy to use and the prefs are a breeze to set up. Alas, SaveHollywood broke with Snow Leopard, so I can't even do that trick anymore.Īfter using Mach Desktop all morning, and trying out all kinds and sizes of movies, the Quartz Compostions, and putting different weg pages on my desktop, I was sold. The QTKitserver that runs in the background seems to take way less cpu and memory than other ways I've tried to use to run a QT movie on the desktop - like using Screeni, or SaverDesktop, or WallSaver to run the SaveHollywood Screen saver (it plays QT movies as a screensaver) on my desktop. I have dozens of beautiful, and really huge, QT files, and Mach Desktop plays them all with ease. Most of the built-in Quartz Compositions are beautiful and interesting, and it's also really cool being able to display a live web page on your desktop if you want.īut the big thing for me is how gracefully Mach Desktop handles running QuickTime files on your desktop. This program does a terrific job of putting beautiful moving images on your desktop. If you want to display widgets on your Desktop, you can use the FREE WidgetRunner, It works great standalone or with other programs like My Living Desktop. It has more features and appears to work better at least on on my system. If they do not, I would recommend My Living Desktop. But if you just want to play QT ,movies on your Desktop, please try Mach Desktop first to make sure you can hear audio and the movies loop properly on your Mac. The widgets do NOT FLOAT on top of the windows like other solutions.īut if you want more control on the layer on which your widget resides, you will need to use another solution like the FREE WidgetRunner.Īll in all, MachDesktop has some great features and the price is right. One of the BEST features is its ability to display widgets on your desktop. But it will probably make your Desktop ugly. Pity.Īnd yes you can display a web page on your Desktop (like MS Active Desktop). Right now you cannot easily use any of their great Quartz animations ALSO as a Screensaver, You will need to do that manually. (And when you import a new Quartz composition, import into into your list of available Screensavers). I would prefer the ability to use one of your Quartz Screensavers as your Desktop Animation (like WallSaver). But it does not easily let you use one of your Quartz ScreenSavers as the desktop animation. Mach Desktop does play Quartz compositions on your Desktop. (My Living Desktop does this).īut unlike My Living Desktop. Better yet, also add the ability to automatically MUTE audio when certain applications like iTunes are running. You will want to do that when you play music in iTunes etc. I also would like to see an option in the MenuBar to EASILY mute the audio without having to go into the Preferences. I am sure these are small bugs that can easily be fixed. At the end of the loop, the motion stops but I still hear the sound. (and yes, I do have the volume UP in the Mach Desktop Preferences).īug 2 - It has trouble looping some of my QT movies. If I use my own movies, I can hear sound. Mach Desktop appears to work well on my Desktop but it appears to have some bugs when playing back QT movies.īug 1 - I cannot hear any sound from the included QT movies.
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