This is a shout out to NYC filmmakers -- we'll be in the city for Independent Film Week and O'Reilly Web 2.0 from Sept 14-19. We'll spend the majority of our time at IFP's conference but you may see us also at a few Web 2.0 sessions. If you've been wondering who makes everything work inside your computer on the Caachi site and you'll be in NYC during that week, say hi to us.

Here's a very technical review of "Popcorn Hour", a media center box that will connect your TV to your computer's collection of video and audio files. By all accounts, "Popcorn Hour" works just great and is compatible with films downloaded from Caachi.

Like films? How about when they are free?

Join us if you're in San Francisco this Friday for a preparty-like event ahead of Sunday's DIY DAYS conference. We'll be hitting Mint Plaza / Mezzanine this Friday for a free showing of 3 of the most popular From Here To Awesome films. I think MySpace users will be voting for the films. Register for the free event. If you drop by, say hello to Charles or myself.

• Tiffany Shlain - Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
• Caveh Zahedi - Tripping with Caveh
• From Here to Awesome films

Believe it. Streaming video is now available on Caachi, for those of you who want to see films on-demand style. We're psyched about offering this and we think you will be too. We've also added a bunch of new features to the site as well. Among them:

• Watch free films without registration
• Anonymous comments - (don't hate!)
• Improved affiliate links for those of you who want to plug films on our site
• New film page layout
• New home page layout
• Bookmark your place when using Watch NOW! (our new streaming video feature) so you can resume watching where you left off

Want to see "Watch NOW!" in action? Go to any of our free films to check it out. But that said, we're really not about free films, but about supporting filmmakers. Look over our collection - if you see something that interests you then buy it. 75% of what you give will go straight to the filmmaker.

We're just getting started with adding more features to the site and this is only just the start - let us know what you think!

ciao!

For filmmakers, especially those overseas, who have wanted to send their films to us over the Internet (to save time & money) -- you can now do it with no file size restrictions.

Before, we were using Pando, a software program to send files simply over the Internet. The only problem with Pando was it capped the file size to 1GB. That's no longer a problem since we ditched Pando for Podmailing.

Podmailing basically does the same thing that Pando does but it has no file size limit. So if you wanted to send us a 2GB, 3GB, 4GB etc., file, you can now. Uploading times haven't changed so it may take some time to upload, depending on your connection. We've added these simple instructions (scroll to the bottom of the page) for sending large files to us using Podmailing.

Good luck but let us know if you run into any hurdles.