High School Musical Movie Success Paves Way For Sequel

By Zach Efron

The High School Musical Movie, produced by Disney became a run-away success when it was released for the cable channel a few years ago. The movie became a worldwide hit, launching its lead stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens to super stardom. The movie has also spawned a special DVD, a live concert and other products. The movie was also extremely
Because of the movie's phenomenal success, the movie's producers decided to create a sequel- High School Musical 2. The sequel was staged during the summer break and is set in Sharpay and Ryan Evan's golf club.

At the start of the movie, Ms. Darbus' drama class is shown completely bored as the teacher goes on and on about the idea of Summer. The students can't wait for the clock to strike three so that they can be dismissed and go on with their summer plans. All the characters break out into a song-What Time is It? This is the beginning of the fun movie that teaches about following your dreams without stepping on other people and the value of friendships and staying true to yourself.

The stars from the first movie reprise their roles in the sequel. Zac Efron once again plays the role of Troy Bolton while Vanessa Ann Hudgens play the role of Gabriela Montez.

In this second installment of the HSM movie franchise, Sharpay Evans (played once again by Ashley Tisdale) convinces the club manager Mr. Fulton to hire Troy Bolton for the summer.
Sharpay figured having Troy work for the golf club where her family spends their summers (her parents seat on the board of the club), will mean the perfect opportunity to catch his attention and his heart.

Unfortunately for Sharpay, Troy requested that his friends and his girl friend be employed at the Lava Springs as well. Sharpay can't believe that she still has to share Troy Bolton with Gabriela and the entire East High basketball team during her almost perfect summer!

Once again Sharpay and Ryan try to break the two lovers up. Sharpay successfully confuses Troy and alienates him from his friends but in the process loses the respect of her beloved brother Ryan. Ryan ends up making friends with the other teens from East High. The whole team practices for the wonderful production that is put up every year at the Lava Springs to showcase the talents of the Evans siblings. This time Sharpay and Ryan work separately as Sharpay has managed to convince Troy to sing with her.

The sequel also became a huge hit and now third installment is already in the works and will be the first HSM movie to be released in movie theaters worldwide. The first two movies were just shown in the Disney cable network.

More updates, significant stories, musical tours and concerts about high school musical movie could be found at http://www.TheHighschoolMusicalOnline.com

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Want a Great Date? Watch a Movie

By Chai Rose

Are you thinking about asking someone out on a date for the very first time? Or maybe you've been with someone a long time but you're having trouble planning a date night that you'll both enjoy. Regardless of your current situation, the perfect choice for any date is to watch a movie.

Watching movies is a form of entertainment that 99.9% of the population enjoys. Some people love to watch movies in the comfort of their own homes, some love to catch a movie at the movie theater, and some like to do both.

Let's face it: Watching movies provides a form of escape for all of us. For 90-180 minutes we are able to escape into the world of the movie and that allows us to put our own troubles and concerns aside. We're able to sit and simply enjoy ourselves. And when we enjoy that movie with someone else, the entire experience is even better.

That's why watching a movie is great no matter what type of date your going on. But of course you need to decide what type of movie you can see that both of you will watch.

Obviously most men like action films like the Die Hard series, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rambo. Women like romantic films like 27 Dresses, Titanic, and Sleepless in Seattle. Usually movies like these are only liked by one person on the date and therefore each of these genres might not be the best choice for a date.

Instead, you should plan to see movies that are a mix of both romance and action or you should choose to see a comedy, a dramatic film, or even a horror flick. In fact, in the examples above, Titanic is considered one of the most romantic films in history but there is enough action in that movie to satisfy many men.

A safe bet if you are about to go out on a first date is to choose to see a comedy. However, if you have been with someone for a long time then the two of you should come to a mutual decision on which movie you want to see.

Want a great list of date movies. Checkout truemoviereview.com's Top 10 list here: http://truemoviereview.com/category/top-10s

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The Top 8 Things The Music, Television, Movie And Consumer Electronics Industries Should Do

By Scott Consolatti

The music, television, movie and consumer electronics industries (hereafter collectively referred to as the industry) have been struggling with the rapid advance of technology and the new virtuality of content. Here are the top eight things the industry should do to harness the technology and recapture the simple tenet of giving the customer what they want.

1. Offer three consumption models.

a. Offer all content free with ads.
All content should be available on demand all the time free with ads. The best examples of this so far are music videos at mtv.com and music.yahoo.com and TV shows at in2tv.aol.com. The worst examples of this are the television networks who still insist on having their content time expire after only a short period of availability. Networks should use the ad model to make their entire catalog of shows, current and past, available for free all the time. All media stores, such as iTunes, should also introduce the option of listening to or watching a brief ad per 10 minutes of content or so in order to enjoy the entire content rather than just short preview clips.

b. Rent all content without ads for a fee.
This is the same as 1a only without the ads for a fee. The best examples of this so far are Netflix and Yahoo! Music Unlimited. With the former, for as low as $8.99 per month, you can rent any movie in the store, and that now includes some that can be watched directly online. With the latter, for as low as $5.99 per month, you can listen to every song in the store as many times as you want with no ads. All media stores and sites should offer this option.

c. Sell all content Digital Rights Management(DRM, or copy protection)-free.
There will still always be a market for owning content outright, such as for those times where you just don't have an Internet connection or don't want to be tethered to a server. In these cases, for both online virtual formats and offline physical formats, DRM simply should go. It has proven to hamper sales significantly due to treating everyday paying customers as if they are pirates, restricting them to play back the content on too few devices, giving them the chore of backing up and managing licenses on their computer and violating their fair use rights. DRM will always be defeatable and the industry simply needs to stop investing an inordinate amount of time and money into something that has a negative impact on their bottom line. The industry should abandon it and get back to the basic premise of allowing the customer the joy of experiencing the content they paid for without any strings attached. The best example of this so far is EMI which is now allowing media stores to sell DRM-free songs.

2. Wireless Internet-enable all devices.
The computer cannot be the only access point. TVs, cable boxes, disc players, DVRs, game consoles, portables, boom boxes, phones, car head units - in short all playback devices - should come with built-in wireless connection to the Internet for access to content servers. The best examples of this so far are the Playstation 3 and the iPhone/iPod touch Wi-Fi Music Store.

3. End format wars.
When a new format is needed to advance the industry to the next level, there should be one and only one format that goes to market and becomes the standard. Like 1c, this applies to both online virtual formats and offline physical formats.

The current example in physical formats is Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. Two formats were necessary at first to spur competition, but the differences between them at this point are so negligible that ultimately one has to win for either to succeed. A standards body needs to exist to allow competition at first and to oversee a limited beta period to ensure customer opinions are factored in, but then to ultimately pick a winner before full-scale market launch. Companies should be required to register candidate formats in the early stages. The standards body should track investment and invention level of each candidate along the way. Then a winner should be chosen with a percentage of the licensing revenue going to all of the candidates commensurate with their investment and invention level. The candidates either agree to these terms from the get-go or they do not participate in determining and profiting from the next generation format.

The current example in virtual formats is mp3 vs. AAC vs. WMA vs. yet others for audio, and mpeg-4 (H.264) vs. WMV (VC-1) vs. yet others for video. Coupled with 1c, the industry should have standardized on mp3 and mpeg-4 a long time ago to ensure that all content will be universally playable on every device.

Correcting this immediately is essential. The industry should get a standards body in place as soon as possible and declare much overdue industry standards, such as Blu-ray, mp3 and mpeg-4. The marketplace will rejoice, sales will skyrocket and the floodgates will open on the dam the industry itself has been one of the largest contributors to building.

4. Allow playlists to be defined and stored on the servers.
What 1a and 1b do is move us away from the need to store and manage our own copies of the content on our client devices (or on our shelves). Moving playlists off of the clients is a natural extension of that. When we can dial up all content including our favorite playlists on demand all the time anywhere we have an Internet connection, the convenience of not having to permanently store and backup our own copies of the data will start to prevail. The best example of this so far is Yahoo! Music Jukebox.

5. Offer movies by the chapter in addition to whole.
Just as the norm is now to be able to buy individual songs rather than just whole albums, the same option should be available for buying the individual chapters of movies. Doing so would offer the same advantages as individual song sales - the ability to collect favorite chapters at lower cost and storage use, the ability to direct-access chapters on playback and the ability to arrange favorite chapters from various movies into playlists. Note that this would require players to pre-cache the next chapter to ensure gapless chapter-to-chapter playback, but that is certainly doable.

6. Offer a choice of bitrates.
Highly compressed bitrates were fine at first, but there is no doubt that even with today's bandwidth and storage (which will only grow with time), those who want to enjoy higher bitrates should have the option. With 1a and 1b, bandwidth is the primary factor, and clearly higher bitrates are possible even today. With 1c online formats, storage is also a factor, but even with today's capacities some may choose quality over quantity for must-have content.

7. Piggyback audio on video for physical formats.

The industry moving to a new physical format is a big undertaking. Assuming a new HD format succeeds for video, then audio should just piggyback on that success. The video format will obviously have enough capacity for audio, and consumers will not have to buy additional players.
Previous HD audio attempts of DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD failed for several reasons - separate audio-only players, no single digital connection such as HDMI, format war, etc. - all of which can be avoided once either Blu-ray or HD DVD is declared the standard. Albums in uncompressed PCM, both 2-channel stereo and multi-channel surround, with HD extras such as music videos, live concert footage and still photos all played through an existing player with single HDMI connection would be very compelling. With lossless compression such as Dolby TrueHD, perhaps entire album box sets could fit on one disc. These are exciting new possibilities.

8. Leverage viral marketing.

This is an extension of 1a. Provide url-addressability to free ad-coupled content that sites anywhere can provide links to - it essentially equates to free marketing for you. It doesn't matter from where the eyeballs found the content, just that they found it. More eyeballs means more ad revenue in your pocket and more exposure that will lead to the eventual purchase of the content and related merchandise such as concert tickets, t-shirts, posters, action figures, toys, etc. A free ad-supported lure has always been necessary (radio and TV) for widespread exposure. The best examples of this so far are music videos at mtv.com and music.yahoo.com and TV shows at in2tv.aol.com. Music, movies and all TV programs should get on board and realize the massive new source of constant ad revenue never before possible without the new technology.

These eight things would take the industry out of its current slump and carry it into unprecedented growth territory.

Scott Consolatti is founder and president of Megacollage, a pioneer in online media compilations including music and video playlists, custom photo collages and text compilations. See for yourself how Megacollage combines the best of what today's online content world has to offer by visiting http://www.megacollage.com/index.html

How to Download Movie to PSP

By M Jordan

Personal PSP device has increased usage from listening to music to watching your favorite movie downloads onto your device. I would recommend getting a reasonable large memory stick to store your favorite movie files. With the memory stick, you will need a USB cable that you can use to connect your personal psp device to your computer. To download movie onto your personal psp device, just follow these simple steps.

1. Format the new memory stick
To use the newly purchased memory stick, you need to re-format it before you can start using it. To re-format, start with pressing the “home” button at the lower left of your psp console. Next, search for “setting” by using the left arrow key. Follow the next step to find the “system setting icon” using the down arrow key and press the “X” button to select it.

Use the down arrow key again to search for the “format memory stick” icon and then press X button again to select it.

By now you will see a note on the screen asking and confirming with the user to proceed with re-formatting the memory stick. (It is a fail safe confirmation for psp device to prevent its user from erasing or losing important files in case the user has accidentally selects the re-formatting link) To continue with re-formatting, press “yes” and follow by pressing “X” button again to confirm your execution. Depending on the capacity of the memory stick, it takes about quite awhile to complete the formatting.

2. Use the USB cable to connect psp to your computer
Start connecting your personal psp device to your personal computer by using the USB cable. Once you has connect both your psp to your PC using the USB cable. Once the connection is done, from the bottom left of the psp console press the “home” button and follows by scrolling left to search for the “settings” column. Next, scroll down until you find the “USB connection” and press “X” to execute it. The memory drive from the psp device will now be mounted and displayed onto your computer screen.

3. Ready to download movie to your psp
To copy movie file on the psp device, it is important to ensure the proper and correct folder in the psp device memory stick. The correct file should be MP_Root>100MNV01. If the movie files are not copied onto the proper folder, the movie files will not be able to play back. Simply create the folder manually if the MP_Root>100MNV01 folder is not available so that your movie file will work correctly.

Check the psp movie files name and must be named starting with M4V and ends with five random numbers such as M4V12345. The same goes for the THM (thumbnail) files.

Once the movie files are copied onto the psp device memory stick, disconnect your psp device from your personal computer. To watch the movie files, simply scroll down to the “Video” column of your psp device and press “X” to execute it. Now you can enjoy watching your favorite movie on your personal psp device.
Just follow the same steps above for additional movie files that you want to convert and transfer to your psp device.

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