Kanopy streaming service: Library Cards Unlock Film Vaults
Sept 3, 2017 18:56:17 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 3, 2017 18:56:17 GMT
NY Times: Library Cards Unlock Film Vaults
People lucky enough to have a good amount of disposable income (or bad enough at managing money) don’t often think of the library as a home entertainment option. Yet I know a lot of people who have Netflix, Amazon Prime or cable with a lot of premium channels, who will balk at shelling out an extra six or seven or eight bucks a month for a more curated movie streaming service. For them, there is a solution, and all they need is their library card.
Anyone who has a New York Public Library or Brooklyn Library card now have free access to Kanopy, a streaming service that has a library of 30,000 movies, hundreds of them from the Criterion Collection.
The service is also free if you are affiliated with a college or university, either as a professor or a student. Kanopy, which is accessible as an app on Roku and Android and iOS devices, and as a website, is available to 477 public libraries and 1,424 learning institutions across the United States.
Kanopy’s offerings vary depending on where you live. Some collections and some titles may not be available at all; some may be available to an education-affiliated account but not to a public library-affiliated account. The New York Public Library version of the service offers 420 movies from the Criterion Collection’s deep library of international classics (from directors including Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin) and contemporary art house films.
Kanopy works like a standard paid streaming service, with limitations. Just as when you take a book out from the library and have a circumscribed amount of time to keep it, so it is with the movies here. Once you press “play” on a given movie, you have three days to watch it, as many times as you like, which uses up one play credit. The number of play credits for each user is determined by the library to which the membership is attached, not by the service. The New York Public Library offers Kanopy users 10 play credits a month. (Members affiliated with educational institutions get unlimited plays.)
How to Stream Thousands of Free Movies Using Your Library Card
Kanopy
People lucky enough to have a good amount of disposable income (or bad enough at managing money) don’t often think of the library as a home entertainment option. Yet I know a lot of people who have Netflix, Amazon Prime or cable with a lot of premium channels, who will balk at shelling out an extra six or seven or eight bucks a month for a more curated movie streaming service. For them, there is a solution, and all they need is their library card.
Anyone who has a New York Public Library or Brooklyn Library card now have free access to Kanopy, a streaming service that has a library of 30,000 movies, hundreds of them from the Criterion Collection.
The service is also free if you are affiliated with a college or university, either as a professor or a student. Kanopy, which is accessible as an app on Roku and Android and iOS devices, and as a website, is available to 477 public libraries and 1,424 learning institutions across the United States.
Kanopy’s offerings vary depending on where you live. Some collections and some titles may not be available at all; some may be available to an education-affiliated account but not to a public library-affiliated account. The New York Public Library version of the service offers 420 movies from the Criterion Collection’s deep library of international classics (from directors including Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin) and contemporary art house films.
Kanopy works like a standard paid streaming service, with limitations. Just as when you take a book out from the library and have a circumscribed amount of time to keep it, so it is with the movies here. Once you press “play” on a given movie, you have three days to watch it, as many times as you like, which uses up one play credit. The number of play credits for each user is determined by the library to which the membership is attached, not by the service. The New York Public Library offers Kanopy users 10 play credits a month. (Members affiliated with educational institutions get unlimited plays.)
How to Stream Thousands of Free Movies Using Your Library Card
Kanopy
