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Re: In order for it to succeed..
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I'll pay 24.99 at the checkout line at blockbuster, if I can get it TODAY
Making theatrical releases available to home video won't happen anytime soon. They will not cannibalize the box office cash cow. quote:
I must OWN in, and be able to RESELL it ... [snip] ... No damn DRM, or restrictions, or time limits ... [snip] ... That's where the future is. It's not adding more restrictions.
I disagree. The future is more DRM and more restrictions. The success of iTunes has spoken, people will buy into DRM restricted material. As much as we'd like to think the pirates can crack anything, schemes WILL get tougher. DirecTV piracy, for example, has been dark for a while now. Hardware based DRM is coming. The only way you're going to be able to get away from DRM is to use old technology (CD and DVD, or whatever the last "cracked" geneartion of DRM was). The industries will be looking to stop production of new material on those insecure formats as soona as possible.
And no, I don't like it one bit.
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| said by djrobx  : Making theatrical releases available to home video won't happen anytime soon. They will not cannibalize the box office cash cow. I think they have canibalized it already, with movies coming out in DVD 3 to 4 months after their theatrical release...
But that's just MHO | |
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The success of iTunes has spoken, people will buy into DRM---
Um, don't think the few million in sales iTunes even comes near the CD sales marks, iTunes was simply the first to do it simply for morons. Nevermind the catchy ads, I've had many friends lose iTunes material once the ipod battery dies, how do you rectify that? with a cd or mp3, you haven't that problem. also, who's to say they aren't purposely making crappy batteries that force this situation(and up iTunes sales to fools paying twice for the same limited bogus content).
Same goes to movies, once the mega chains get outfitted with HD cams that show films, clearly, with high res content(higher than DVD), better managed sound(the yokels at my local theater couldnt setup a pair of headphones right), GOOD seating, not just barely better than b4(note the wake your ass up chair you sat in for 2+ hrs), reasonable prices for drinks and snacks, $6.50 for a hotdog, gimme a friggin break. Until this fundamental greed change happens, you can kiss the theater experience goodbye, they've bilked us saps for way too long and cannot understand our ire. My bud spent the equivalent of a movie night out once a month, for one year, for his family of 4 on building a home theater ROOM on his house. and let me tell you, it blows the doors off any theater that isn't IMAX. HD projector and all, 10 foot screen, and 8.1 sound, and some seriously sweet HT lounge chairs that caress the ass into thinking it went to heaven! It's amazing what you can do with money when you don't throw it blindly at someone dangling overpriced candy you can't really eat in front of your face(hollywood+chains). | |
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