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| hard copies If you really think about it, if things are "online", why on earth do you even need to "burn" anything? Of course we're not there yet, and maybe wasting bandwidth and getting kicked off by your ISP for bandwidth abuse if you like to watch the same movie over and over again, but think about it... If, say, for instance, a company like Netflix digitizes their collection, where I can search for a movie, and then download it and watch it, or better yet - stream it to my HDTV, why on earth do I need a hard copy, or a "disk" of anything?
Obviously, we're not there yet, but If I had to download even 20,000 DVDs and burn them it would take a long, long, long, long time. It would be a full time job. What is needed is this: an on-demand type service that streams these things to your TV set. So easy that a caveman can do it. (sorry, caveman). No burning, no downloading, no getting booted by your ISP for excessive bandwidth consumption, and so on. 20,000 movies in full DVD quality -- on demand 24/7. Or 50,000 movies. Or 70,000 movies. You can't burn that many disks without losing your mind. Who needs disks, really?
It could be pay-per-view, or, for more money, unlimited on-demand. A modest montly fee for unlimited access to tens of thousands of full DVD quality movies. At your fingertips. It doesn't get much better than that. It's easier than torrent, or usenet. Add in the cost of blanks, your time, your patience, perhaps a usenet account, that worry on your backburner -- and an "unlimited" on-demand service (a good one), even if it's approaching $100 per month -- I mean, think about it -- tens of thousands of movies at your fingertips, legally, without any kind of bulky hard-copy disks taking up space anywhere. It's the ultimate solution. Still a ways off, but I do think that essentially the future is in on-demand.
It would be the ultimate solution to the filesharing problem to the extent it would be easier and perhaps not significantly more expensive -- at least, considering the time you have to put into it -- download, burn, wait around, worry about things -- if you can go legit for a reasonable fee, and have access to tens of thousands of full-DVD quality movies in an on-demand setting, why bother with torrents? Why "rent" anything? Just click your remote and start watching.
This is what we eventually need, once the bandwidth is there, and perhaps if cable companies or satellite companies or fiber companies will allow third-party on-demand providers in. The movies are always there - it's like you instantly "own", or "have access to" a HUGE collection.
The studios could eliminate the cost of producing the DVDs, and just get straight royalties from the on-demand service every time someone played a film. Independent filmmakers would have a way to get their work to a larger audience. Consumers would be overwhelmed by choice. It's probably just that us human beings are silly creatures - it's like we're cavemen but we don't know it (in aggreggate, anyway). | |
| I think the most important point (that has already been brought up as well) is why the heck am i going to upload something that i've paid for? what kind of business model is this?
it's ridiculous. unless of course it is cheaper and pricing is based on how much you upload | | |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | reply to sago5
Burn the DVD... so I/we can play it in the livingroom on the DVD player?
Naw, screw that, huh?
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by dadkins:Burn the DVD... so I/we can play it in the livingroom on the DVD player? Naw, screw that, huh? For an extra fee they'll probably let you burn but it'll probably only play on a computer with the proper DRM on it.
not playable on your settop dvd player.
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | said by dvd536:said by dadkins:Burn the DVD... so I/we can play it in the livingroom on the DVD player? Naw, screw that, huh? For an extra fee they'll probably let you burn but it'll probably only play on a computer with the proper DRM on it. not playable on your settop dvd player. Oh HELL YES!!!
I want some of that action! NOT!
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