You Jaman yet

No not that type of jammin you hear mostly on Bob Marley CD’s but Jaman.com which is touting to be the birth of Social Cinema on the internet.

The had a demo shown at demo.com conference and took away quite some buzz. Jaman is a social network for people passionate about world cinema. The
Jaman network delivers independent films in better-than-DVD quality to
Mac and PC users over broadband Internet. The format they are delivered in is H.264 and they are not subject to DVD licensing laws as they don’t deliver DVD files. Prices are $1.99 to rent and $4.99 to buy.

You can browse, discover and share films by searching through communities, genre or region. As less than 1% of films produced overseas ever make it to the United States Jaman hopes to bridge the divide. Though I hope that they think about the rest of the world as well and not just the U.S.

I think this is a great new service and will make quite an impact as they start rolling out of beta. Even while still in beta they already have 1000 films with which they have contracts for online distribution. The people that will benefit mostly out of this service is obviously other countries trying to find an audience in the U.S and other western countries. The money that they can make with the service will definitely help the bottom lines of the film producers and independents.

Next step is for someone to become an exclusive online film distributor, also don’t expect Jaman to be the only one to be in this web genre competition will definitely crop up.

Will this effect iTunes? Probably not as they sell American content to American buyers, it just seems so stupid to me that they only give access for iTunes movies to U.S buyers only. I think more people pirate stuff there than in Sweden.

Everybody Go To Jaman.

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