Subscribe for CONSTANT updates! Ride Space Mountain as it would have appeared before the major rehab for the 50th celebration. Ride shot with night vision. Space Mountain opened in 1977, invigorating a decade-old Tomorrowland as Disneyland’s second roller coaster. The idea for Anaheim’s ride originated in the mid 1960s, during Walt Disney’s lifetime, as a way to energize the aging Tomorrowland. The project was shelved until the success of Space Mountain in Florida. After two years of … Read more...(83 words, 13 images, estimated 20 secs reading time)
A day after the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem announced its latest milestones, Disney provided a slick demonstration of the alternative it's developing to promote online movie distribution. Dubbed KeyChest, it has a lot in common with DECE — both attempt to make legal movie downloads more appealing to consumers, in part by solving the problems caused by the incompatible anti-piracy technologies used by various online retailers (e.g., Apple, CinemaNow, Amazon, Microsoft and Sony) and device makers. They also would create a way to make legal downloads more valuable by giving consumers more options for watching the movies they buy and more assurance that their purchases won't be rendered obsolete by changing technology. Read more...(117 words, 13 images, estimated 28 secs reading time)