Popcorn Time (recensie) kwam zag en ging dood, maar uit de dood van dit masterlijke stukje software stonden vele klonen op. Deze doen het op zich prima, maar er is een nieuwe speler aan het front verschenen, namelijk Zona. Deze is gemaakt door Russische programmeurs en is eigenlijk Popcorn Time op anabolen. Zona maakt het niet alleen mogelijk om films te streamen, maar ook TV series en muziek. Maar kan daarnaast ook worden gebruikt als download programma voor je torrent behoeftes. De website Torrent Freak schreef er een mooi artikel over en deze kan je hier vinden.

Zona hails from Russia but fear not, its 27mb installer appears in standard English. Getting the thing working is child's play too, just make sure it's being allowed through your firewall after setup. If users want it to become their standard torrent downloader that option is available too, but advanced users will probably prefer the flexibility of their regular client.

Once setup is complete, users are presented with the following screen, movies up first. Much of the artwork depicted is pulled from Russian sources, so for non-speakers a reliance on movie covers will be required. If that fails, directly under each movie is the title in clear English.

While Popcorn Time was restricted to content indexed on YTS, Zona has no such limitation. The app appears to have access to many, many thousands of movies pulled from torrent sites around the web. It is not clear where, but random searches hardly ever fail to turn up the required content although sometimes playback can hesitate, possibly due to lack of seeds. That said, a database of 500,000 torrents should be more than enough.