From their website (http://www.zediva.com):
"Zediva is a new online movie rental service. Using Zediva, you can watch the newest movies and TV shows available on DVDs.
When you rent a movie on Zediva, you are renting both a DVD and DVD Player in our data center. During the period of the rental, the DVD and the DVD Player can only be used by you.
When you rent a movie from Zediva, you have up to 14 days to complete watching the movie. Each time you rent the movie, you receive control of that DVD for 4 hours.
If you get interrupted while watching a movie or don't want to watch it all at once, you can return to Zediva and rent the movie again without additional charge for up to 14 days. Just return to the movie page and click on "Rent". No movie credits will be deducted from your account after the first rental -- during the free re-rental period.
A special note on long pauses: Your DVD will be automatically returned if you leave it on pause for an hour or more. This is out of consideration to other users who may be waiting to rent the DVD. If your rental is auto-returned, you can re-rent the disc anytime within the free re-rental period (subject to availability). "
Now the bad news: Registration is "temporarily" full.
Now the good news: If you were lucky enough to beat the masses and score a login, this service works great on the gtablet. I rented the movie, "The Town" on my PC/TV combination and watched flawlessly from start to finish, even pausing a few times to accomodate some interruptions. Quality of the video was excellent, no pixelation and no buffering that I noticed. I have a single core 2.2 GHZ processor with 512MB ram and a video card with 1 gig of ram that handled the stream just fine. The next day I attempted to view the movie again on the gtablet (taking advantage of the 14 day rental policy). At first the movie was checked out but the service emailed me when it was available (picked that up on my gtablet) so I immediately went to the site in the stock browser (I am using Vegan b5.1.1) and clicked on the movie title. The system uses a flash control to control the playback. Although I received a warning that the movie was not optimized for mobile device use (which probably would not happen if I switched my browser choice and selected desktop as version), it played back beautifully. A "click" on the full screen option brought it up to near full screen 16:9 display. I watched about 15 minutes of the movie with no pauses and no buffering issues. I am sure my daughter was upstairs using the internet intensely as well so at least for my network no streaming issues. After 15 minutes I turned my attention back to the basketball game at hand and returned the DVD so someone else could watch the movie.
So I would say get on the waiting list and if the MPAA doesn't shut this down, this will be a nice venue for watching movies on the gtablet. Not sure how high of quality the is (HD, 480, 720, 1080?) but the picture on both my TV and gtablet was acceptionally crisp and clear.
youtube streams puffer to long in wifi at home not good as before is it smething with the 4.1.2?
also wake up screen when unlock takes 2 seconds sometimes
I have this bizzare problem on my mobile since the first day I bought it. If I watch a video ~45 minutes and after that I watch another video at about 1 hour of total play time the video player stops responding and after that quits.
That happens with the default player and with MX player too. I guess it's a hardware bug or something?
Anyone else having the same issue?
On any movies / shows I have downloaded about every 2 minutes during playback it lags for a second and resumes, the audio doesn't lag just the video. It even happens on YouTube. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know of a solution..? I have noticed this happening since the boot animation was changed, I'm on the current nightly.
My phone overheats when watching movies in MX Player, as a result the battery drains too quickly. The problem doesn't occur when using VLC, but I'd rather prefer using MX Player. Does anyone else have the problem, and were you able to fix it?