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But given the restrictions on the service and the fact that it is launching with a mere 1,500 pieces of content (much of this television shows, concerts, and the like), it's no great leap forward, and it seems to have launched at just the right moment to tap into a wave of anti-Bell, pro-net neutrality sentiment. The move does give Canadians one more option when it comes to grabbing online video content, since iTunes in Canada doesn't yet offer movies. iPods are not covered neither, apparently, are Zunes, so this should be a really useful feature for most users.

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The store does work with XP or Vista, and the content can be streamed to media extender like the Xbox 360 or downloaded to a handful of portable devices from Archos.

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Please share any ideas on how we can get MAC and PC to play nice together.' Not even the creators of the store like this solution on the FAQ page, in answer to the inevitable question about Mac compatibility, the answer begins, 'First off, several of us have Macs at home and this is just as frustrating for us.' It then goes on a bit plaintively, 'We're hoping that one day Microsoft, Apple, the content owners and video sites like ours will have a big group hug and we can all share content.

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Of course, it doesn't work with Macs or Linux machines because the site uses Windows Media DRM. The store itself is roughly what you would expect, with a small selection of high-profile movies from Paramount and other 'major Hollywood studios' like Eros Entertainment (which, surprisingly, does not produce porn films). And those worms can't be herded back into the can easily.' Advertisement With the opening of the Bell Video Store, Bell has opened a can of worms that is net neutrality in Canada. And if those laws can't stop this kind of behavior, there is an army of people out there who are pushing hard to make such practices illegal. As Kapica put it, 'There are restraint-of-trade laws that are created to stop this kind of nonsense. No one appears to believe that Bell will filter or degrade its own video traffic, and that has led to charges of unfair behavior. The Globe & Mail's Jack Kapica even posted a roundup of them last night on his blog, and he called the Canadian reaction to the news 'loud and immediate.' In fact, only a day after the announcement, those theories are running rampant round the 'Net. Launching a video store in such a climate is guaranteed to bring out the (justified or not) conspiracy theories. Although the regulator declined to make the company change its ways while the hearing is in progress, the recently-released list of pointed questions for Bell shows that the CRTC is committed to truly understanding the issue, and it wants to see hard data to back up Bell's decisions. But officially launching the store now poses unavoidable comparisons to the FCC investigation of Comcast in the US, where a company called Vuze accused the cable giant of throttling its legal P2P video sales while at the same time just happening to compete with Vuze by offering unthrottled video-on-demand through its cable system.Ĭanada's CRTC is currently investigating Bell for the throttling it recently rolled out across its entire data network, including bandwidth sold on a wholesale basis to smaller ISPs. Calling all wormherdersīell Canada's announcement wasn't a complete surprise, as the company has had the store in beta for a year now. Yes, you could look worse as a company, but puppies and shotguns would probably need to be involved. It's hard to imagine a time at which touting your own downloadable video store makes less sense than when you're on the hot seat for throttling all P2P traffic, much of which competes with Bell to offer video (including entirely legal BitTorrent downloads from the CBC). just as Bell is caught up in a government inquiry into its traffic-shaping practices. Case in point: yesterday's announcement from Bell Canada that the telecom behemoth was officially launching its downloadable video store. No, it doesn't happen much, but once in a while I see the sort of inexplicable corporate decision that makes me long to have been in the room when it was being discussed.