The bottom line is this - the real-time clock and DRM software make it possible for ZVUE users to legally acquire any video off the Internet that's DRM-compatible. It's that simple. As a result, the ZVUE is the world's only portable media player priced under $100 that supports DRM and delivers legal media to go for on the go consumers.

The bottom line is this -- the real-time clock and DRM software make it possible for ZVUE users to legally acquire any video off the Internet that's DRM-compatible. It's that simple. As a result, the ZVUE is the world's only portable media player priced under $100 that supports DRM and delivers legal media to go for on the go consumers.

A lot of the content deals we've closed and will be closing for our Web site -- and virtually all the pay content -- is protected by Windows DRM, so it made sense for us to license it.

Certain video is perfectly reasonable to watch on a small screen.

Within a month, Ray was putting his thoughts on software-as-services on paper.

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.