Mospaw
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Hawaiian Jellyfish
join:2001-01-08
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| Meh.
I wish them luck with it, but I'm also one of those who doesn't watch much video on my computer monitors. Without the ability to burn to media I can play in my stand-alone players, it doesn't have much use for me. The proprietary player doesn't help, either. So really, I'm not a potential customer.
As for my main objection, not being able to burn media, it will probably take a few weeks at most for someone to crack the format and enable burning (despite the DMCA prohibition against such things ... what doesn't the DMCA prohibit?  ).
I just can't get terribly excited about any of these video downloads stores. Another issue is my crappy Embarq connection. At 512K/128K max speed (that's all I can get) the downloads will simply take too long. It would take less time to go to the video store and won't take up expensive hard drive space. In fact, I rarely watch the same movie more than once, and if I want to do that, I buy the DVD.
Yep, good luck, Amazon. I hope you find some customers and can keep ahead of the hackers. |
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jeffjr1
join:2005-01-06
Rome, NY
| I remember reading somewhere that about 20% of the cost of a dvd is the dvd box (plastic, it used to be card board at one point) its self and any bonus dvd that comes with it filled with bonus extra content. this is usually the case with all DVDs now anyways.
my point is were in the HE** do these company's get off charging the same amount for movies without the extra content without the dvd box and without the ability to play the movie on multiple devises? |
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mr_cool
join:2003-10-14
USA | reply to Mospaw
You can crack the drm, its plays for sure, so use fairuse4wm and bam! no drm and you keep your file  |
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