I got a chuckle this morning when I saw an email from MySpace that they were launching a new service called “TrailerPark” (I thought perhaps they were targeting an underserved demographic for membership expansion). But their new service has nothing to do with that. Instead, it’s a dedicated site for movie trailers. The service is run through MySpace Video.
Trailers can be found on various websites, but having an easy place to browse and embed them is great. Apple’s is actually one of the best - they include options to download to an iPod or in High Definition format. Other good sites for movie trailers include Yahoo Movies, IMDB, Movie List, iKlipz and the Movie Trailers Blog. YouTube also has many movie trailers, although there is no permanent category for them.
It would be good if MySpace also showed relevant data about the movie as well, such as release date, actors, etc. No word from them if they plan to do that in the future.
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I like Apple’s service, with the HD clips. Nice and fast too. However - why would you want to put a trailer on your iPod? Its a 2-3min advert…
Apple has the only sane trailer service I’ve seen so far. Whenever I want a trailer, I just do a search on Google for site:apple.com . Most other sites with trailers either have terrible video quality or ridicolous amounts of ads (or both!).
Err, should’ve been site:apple.com <movie title> (Didn’t realize techcrunch allowed HTML tags..)
Looks nice. But I agree with Jason, why would anyone want to download trailers on iPods?
On second thoughts- I would like the trailor of 300, loved the movie. Lemmi check if MySpace has it.
Surprised it took them this long to implement this - it seems like such an obvious hit with the MySpace crowd and an obvious revenue generator.
Wonder if MySpace is eventually coming out with their own Search engine technology?
As a film nut and a former film student, my recommendation is http://www.themoviebox.net/trailers/
It is not a place that hosts movie trailers. Rather it is what we really want: one single place to find all the latest trailer content on the web. They are really on top of it and even post international trailers from interesting areas of the web. It’s the first place I check when watching trailers online.
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I love the graphics…
HDnet, which I get through dish network, has a show I love to watch in the morning called “Nothing but trailers” in High Def. Trailers are great because you can usually pull a few quality seconds out of even the crappiest of movies, and I usually won’t get around to watching the full length version of most of them anyways.
I don’t know about that “underserved demographic” comment….have you been on MySpace lately? I think the trailer park kids are definitely holding their own…
Thats a nifty little idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_SUuZLHYoM
I like Apples trailer site, Yahoo has that funny player, I’ve never understood the trailers on your ipod thing either.
Ok, I agree this is cool but what about Reel Now? I think http://www.reelnow.com is definitely amongst the best.
Hmmmm. Sounds really exciting… ahem..
I’m still waiting however for 24 at http://www.myspace.com to work on any of our Vista machines.. Checked again today and I still get this gem.. http://creative.myspace.com/VOD/vista.html with the following greeting (after a DNS redirect..)”FOX Video on Demand does not currently support computers running Windows Vista operating system. The site will support Windows Vista in the near future.”
Good news though.. The Trailer Trash site does work on Vista..! Yooo hooo!! ugh..
yeah the name absolutley sucks! -
- but its a perfect fit (The trailer Model) for myspace -
- They could have named it anything, whos? cruel joke was “the trailer park”
-RB
KillerClips.com Is kinda of a trailer oriented site that instead has popular quotes from classic films. Inventory needs to grow.
Does techcrunch offer contests? I’ve seen a lot of places offering contests like theblogworld.net has one and johnchow.com has another one
does anyone know if they do..
Apple is definetely the best, now only is the work on the value ad as mentioned in your recommendation, will it make sense, business or otherwise.
I agree with Ryan, Reelnow is one of the best
Why do websites keep thinking they can drive traffic with movie trailers?
Downloadable or streaming movies=a real business. Movie trailers=not a business. That would be like building a porn site that only showed nipples…
http://www.moviebubbles.com is hitting the trailer out of the park…:)
Pushing trailers just when you are most likely to (a) want to see them and (b) actually act on it by purchasing tix…they had a deal with movietickets - plans for a broader service in the works apparently.
Myspace is a trailer park! Met lost of nice people in parks over the years, but not too many who wanted to stay there forever
When I read the title I thought Ricky, Julian & Bubbles had got themselves a MySpace page.
Sadly, this is not the case.
yahoo gets all of the trailers in HD and before anyone else (and since it’s the second largest movies site behind IMDB i would suspect that that will continue). the player has been a bit weird but i think they finally fixed it.
#1. Why trailers, and why on your iPod? Because they are the best scenes or images from a movie. For action sports videos, the trailers also have the best music. They are what you listen to on your way to the ski resort, on the way up the lift, and while your slidin’ downhill.
#2. For action sports, one of the best “trailer parks” out there is http://www.nossatv.com. The shorter video downloads could all be considered “trailers.” Just have to download their player first. Only four action sports channels, but way better viewing than all those above. They also had an iPod download for a while.
I’ve mentioned filmcommunity.com before. Its a new Social Media Network for Film & Filmmakers and anyone interested in cinema. Just over three weeks.
We’re also testing ‘A Wiki for Film’ on http://www.filmcommunity.org
After reading your comment we’ve put up a test posting for Spider-Man 3.
See if its along the lines you had in mind for ‘movie trailer plus info’
http://filmcommunity.openservi....._4%2C_2007
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