Trailer Addict, “Your Daily Dose of Hi-Def Movie Trailers,” is an entire site dedicated the best eight minutes of any movie-going experience. In addition to recent trailers, the site also offers an immensely-comprehensive selection of trailers from years past. I did a search for Se7en (my personal favorite movie of all time) from 1995 and found the following trailer:

As you can see from the above example, Trailer Addict, much like Hulu, offers the ability to embed its content into your own personal site and even provides you four different sizes from which to choose.

Apple Trailers, for about a decade or more, has always been a reliable site through which to find and view the latest trailers from major and independent studios alike. In addition to consistently being updated throughout a week’s time, the site also offers the viewer a multitude of options for trailer-watchin’. You’ve got three options for high-definition (480p, 720p and 1080p) and three options for standard trailers (a.k.a. “low-def”) for the bandwidth-conscious (small, medium and large.) My only gripe with Apple’s Trailer site lies with its requirement of the QuickTime plugin. I honestly don’t know that I’d ever have a need for this plugin if it weren’t for Apple’s trailer site. QuickTime, in my humble opinion, is horrifically bloated and I tend to avoid it at all costs. But those HD trailers are certainly glorious, though…

Are there other sites out there on the Interwebs through which you prefer to find trailers? Let us know by dropping us a line in the comments. In the meantime, check out the original “trailer” (if you want to call it that) for the 1989, Tim Burton-directed Batman.

There are spots for Reagan’s presidential run and re-election as well as for his run for governor of California (the one where he’s being endorsed by none other than John Wayne), Nixon’s presidential run, and the ever-infamous “We Like Ike” presidential campaign ad for Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Check out: Hulu’s "Historic Campaign Ads."

Hey, Microsoft couldn’t let Google steal all the headlines for an entire week, right? (See “Chrome.”) What better way to steal some than to drop the price of one of their most popular hardware releases ever? Effective September 5th, the Xbox 360 Arcade will be available for $199, the 360 console for $299 and the 360 Elite for $399. Here’s some details from the official press release:

Imagine if friends and families had the ability to instantly watch movies from Netflix, live out their musical fantasies through “Rock Band 2″ and “Lips”, star in their own Hollywood classics with “You’re in the Movies,” or have the power to never miss the latest episode of “Heroes” – all from one device, starting at $199. That device is Xbox 360, and Microsoft Corp. today announced it will offer the gaming and entertainment console, which offers the leading Xbox LIVE service, at a new low price in the United States.

For the former, you can check out MP3Tunes, Musana or TunesBag. (And I’m sure there’s more out there.) These services allow you to upload tracks (MP3s and WMAs, typically) from your existing collection without having to worry about whether or not your home PC is connected to the Internet.

MP3Tunes currently grants you 2 GB of storage on free accounts. Upgrades are available and are pretty cheap. The next available plan offers you about 50 GB of space for $4.95/mo or $39.95/yr. One additional benefit of signing up with a premium plan is the ability you’ll receive to listen to your tracks via a selection of Locker-enabled devices (including mobile phones) which means that you don’t even need a computer to listen to the tracks you’ve collected at home. Once you have your plan, simply grab the company’s LockerSync software to upload your tracks.

Next up is musana. In my rather humble opinion, musana is the weakest of the bunch… at least for now. The site currently does not offer an uploader (not that we could find, anyway) available for use which means you’re going to have to use your browser’s file select option to upload your tracks. Once you have uploaded some tracks, the player’s interface is “neat-looking” but not as intuitive as it should be. (Not bad, mind you, just not great.)

Granted, the site is still in “private beta” so things might improve. Although, the last post to the company’s official blog was back in February ‘08. That said, I wanted to include the site as an option for music lovers on-the-go but don’t be surprised if musana ends up in the deadpool.

Finally, in the “upload-&-listen” cateogry, we have tunesBag. While tunesBag states that they currently allow for unlimited uploading via the tunesBag uploader application, you’ll need to contact them directly if you wish you upload more than 5-7 GB of music.

Your Best Bet Overall, Though…

If you’ve got a broadband connection at home, your PC is always on and you really want to minimize the amount of effort required to get your collection accessible from any computer you might be at, you may want to take a look at the following two free, albeit similar, services.

First up is JukeFly. With JukeFly, you sign up for an account, download the “server” application, point it to your music collection and then, well, nothing. Your music collection is instantly accessible from wherever you can hit jukefly.com in a desktop Web browser. The interface (shown below) is a little cartoonish (it’s entirely Flash-based) but it allows you to do everything you might normally do from iTunes or Windows Media Player: create new playlists, shuffle, search, rate songs, etc.

There’s even some social networking functionality built-in. You can share your collection with others, comment on songs or view other users’ comments on the same song and/or artist, find lyrics (if available,) and even connect to your last.fm account. It’s a pain-free way to access your favorite tunes on the road.

Our favorite pick…

The second and final option we’ll be covering here is Orb. Orb provides you with the same option as JukeFly (being able to access your music collection on the road without having to upload your entire catalog) but takes it a step further; thus making it our favorite choice overall.

In addition to being able to access your tunes (in a brilliant, iTunes-esque Web interface, by the way,) Orb also provides you with the option to browse your home videos, pictures and documents from a remote machine.

That’s right, the entire feature film.  This is a classic, people…go watch it now.

Hulu.com, which we’ve covered before, is a joint-venture between NBC & Fox providing viewers with clips and full-length episodes of your favorite TV shows in addition to movie clips and/or feature-length films.

You can already find most of your favorite shows online just by going to the official site of the network on which the show airs.  (i.e., head over to NBC.com for new episodes of The Office or FOX.com for The Simpsons.)  However, this marks the first time (to our recollection) that two major networks have joined forces to present their own content in one, easy-to-navigate location.

The design is beautiful in its’ simplicity and is brilliantly clean and intuitive:

Most shows available on the site offer at least one full season of content (Arrested Development, anyone?) in addition to select clips ranging from a few seconds to a several minutes in length.

Once you’ve discovered your favorite shows and/or clips, you can add them to a playlist which can be saved for later viewings.  In addition, you can even provide people with the option to subscribe to your playlist(s) via an automatically updated RSS feed.  (Example.)

Despite whether you choose to watch just a clip or a full show, you have a plethora of options for viewing and sharing.  Pause the clip and, to the left, you can choose to view the clip in full-screen mode, as a pop-out in a sized browser window or just have Hulu dim the screen around the content.  (Unlike other online content providers, this feature just dims the area inside the browser – not your entire screen.  The latter would be a nice option and I’ll definitely be making the recommendation.)

Sharing your favorite clip and/or episode couldn’t be easier.  As you can see below, you can choose to either embed the content in your own page or E-mail it to friends/family.  You even have the option to customize the clip using a slider bar:

One additional note: content from NBC and Fox isn’t the only content available.  You’ll find episodes and clips from shows on a variety of different NBC/Fox-owned networks including F/X, MTV and Showtime are available amongst others.  The site also appears to be experimenting with linking to content available from other networks as well.  A search for "arrested development" had many results including two items from ABC. 

These turned out to be two clips from The View available at ABC.com but, if Hulu is a success, ABC, CBS and others might just begin to add their own content to Hulu’s site as well; thus leaving you with a one-stop-shop for all of your favorite shows.

The site is ad-supported and you’ll find small banner ads scattered throughout the site (one per page on average) in addition to 30-second spots during each piece of content.  The convenience and options are amazing and are the best I’ve seen to date.  If you happened to be the recipient of an invitation, let us know what you think.

NBC recently began pulling their own content from Google’s YouTube service in a very transparent move to make the exclusive content only available on their own (yet-to-be-launched) video sharing service, Hulu (a joint venture with Fox.)

Initial news about the Hulu service suggested that both NBC and Fox would be placing full episodes of hit shows like The Simpsons, The Office and Arrested Development on Hulu but short, frequently shared clips of the hit shows (SNL’s Junk in a Box, anyone?) may no longer be available.

Wired.com’s review of the service the other day relayed those fears for me and, although we weren’t able to take the service for a test drive ourselves (it’s still in private beta,) we used a PHP script (thrown together by designISsucky) to view some of the 2000+ items of content to see for ourselves.

Sure enough, we saw everything from short clips to full episodes of shows and even a few crappy movies (yes, we’re referring to Weekend at Bernie’s and Bulworth.)

Of course, the content will be absolutely free but you’ll be seeing banner ads on the site in addition to ads interspersed in the content itself (30 seconds or less, typically) at the beginning and end of each full-length show and another spot somewhere in the middle – much like you’re used to now.

Also, there are no options for user-submitted content so everything you’ll be seeing here is official premium content from both Fox and NBC.  If CBS, ABC and others join the team, Hulu could become a one-stop shop for all of your regularly-watched shows.

Technically speaking, the player Hulu uses for the content is one of the best I’ve seen.  The player is Flash-based and, much like YouTube’s most recent player, offers options for embedding and sharing the content and also links to related videos. 

One disadvantage we’ve noticed, carried straight over from the full episodes currently being offered at NBC.com, is the lack of pre-loading on the content stream.  For instance, if you view a clip on YouTube.com, the entire clip downloads in the background as it continues to play; meaning that you can pause the content , let it download, and then go offline and be able to continue to watch the clip.  The Hulu player doesn’t operate quite the same way and, if your wireless signal were to drop, you would not be able to continue the clip even if you were nearly finished watching it.

Overall, we’re very impressed with hulu and, as soon as we get our invite set up, we’ll bring you any more details we can.

In the meantime, we’ve compiled some examples of fine Hulu content so, without further ado:

30 Rock: Jenna on Hardball:

30 Rock: Distracting Intern:

Saturday Night Live: Junk in a Box, Uncensored:

Cheers:

and, of course:

The first season of Arrested Development (Fox)

Arriving on November 13th, along with the new Zune players, the accessories will be coming from Microsoft themselves, of course, as well as from an increasing list of 3rd-party vendors including Altec Lansing, GPS, Griffin Technologies, Memorex, Monster, Targus and more.

Some of the new accessories Microsoft announced today included new armbands, an Altec Lansing speaker dock, and new leather cases.  Check out some of the new accessories on the official Zune site.

First up, we’ve got Woot selling refurbished versions of the first version of the Zune (today only – while supplies last) in black, white, or brown at $99:

Next, Buy.com has a brand-spanking-new brown version of Zune 1.0 priced at $99.99 with free shipping:

If you can pass up those offers, you may be able to just as easily dismiss the 2nd version of the Zune player – due to be released in mid-November.  Sporting a new look and feel, a flash-based brother, a new and improved Marketplace and more, the Zune brand is bound to make some headway.