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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. |
