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KoolMoe
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Re: Doomed to failure
I tend to agree.
I think the cost is ridiculous and that will be what keeps me away. I also don't like 'playback on one PC'.
But I already have a home-built media center PC hooked up to the widescreen in the family room. I like having DVD rips and home movies on that box. With two kids already, DVDs are constantly scattered about. Time to move away from the hardcopy media.
Let me download a movie for the same price as a rental or, maybe, $10 tops. Let me store it on one server and let me play it back on multiple computers or devices.
I agree being able to burn to DVD would be nice, but I also agree DVD players will fade sooner than later and it's not something I personally really need.
And I don't care about DVD extras. If I did, I'd buy the DVD!
Can't recoup the movie investment from $10 digital movie distribution? Stop paying actors $10 million per movie!
KM
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| You are right on the money. I too have a homemade Media Center a used PIII 500 and it beats the crap out of anything the studios, DVR, and broadcast are offering. And the software I use is one of hundreds of solutions, Meedio, MythTV, Knoppmyth, MS Media Centre, GeeXboX, Freevo, SageTV, MythDora, and countless more.
These clowns have to start competing with the techology that is out here NOW not 2001 technology. I can rip every DVD I own, rent, or borrow to my Media Center in some way shape or form no matter what DRM they thow at me. If this is legal or not is pointless, DecSS is out of the bag and it CANNOT be forgotten, Blue-Ray, HD DVD, will be broken just like CSS. When Apple finally decided to stop fighting the .mp3 format and work alongside of it they made a brilliant decision. How many average users know that iTunes can rip in .mp3 ?
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peter_m
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said by KoolMoe  :Can't recoup the movie investment from $10 digital movie distribution? Stop paying actors $10 million per movie! LOL, I agree completely with your entire post but particularly with the actor's remuneration. With the quality of movies we've been seeing lately, 10$ is even too much. Has the movie business been saturated and squeezed out of ideas? I would not expect to see salary caps for actors soon but then again look at hockey players and the NHL! You never know!?!
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novaflare
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said by KoolMoe :I tend to agree. I think the cost is ridiculous and that will be what keeps me away. I also don't like 'playback on one PC'. But I already have a home-built media center PC hooked up to the widescreen in the family room. I like having DVD rips and home movies on that box. With two kids already, DVDs are constantly scattered about. Time to move away from the hardcopy media. Let me download a movie for the same price as a rental or, maybe, $10 tops. Let me store it on one server and let me play it back on multiple computers or devices. I agree being able to burn to DVD would be nice, but I also agree DVD players will fade sooner than later and it's not something I personally really need. And I don't care about DVD extras. If I did, I'd buy the DVD! Can't recoup the movie investment from $10 digital movie distribution? Stop paying actors $10 million per movie! KM Well like any thing the service will start out much more expensive than what it will be in say 1 or 2 years down the line. Simply put the more people who buy it now the faster the cost will drop.
In the end its the consumer who dictates the price of a thing such as this.
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