 | | Great idea If they were to offer streaming service at that price I'd cancel my Netflix right away and sign up for this.
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 |  iansltx join:2007-02-19 Golden, CO kudos:2 | Re: Great idea Same here. | |
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| Big Entertainment Lusts After Control Hollywood's already revealed that mandating how/where/what you watch is more important than anything else.
CleanFlicks and CleanFilms are two casualties in Hollywood's war to control what you experience.
You sent off your DVD and they returned a copy; with objectionable content edited out. Your original DVD was also returned unviewable, so no license violation.
CF/CF opened up a huge revenue channel for Big Ent., who responded by suing them for copyright violations. It was far more important that the viewers experience the objectionable content than BE gross more for their product.
As with the rest of Big Media (News, TV, Music), it's always been about shaping our thinking.
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 |  | | Re: Big Entertainment Lusts After Control said by Noah Vail:Hollywood's already revealed that mandating how/where/what you watch is more important than anything else. I bet if Hollywood could detect how many people were in a room, they would charge you per person. | |
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| Re: Big Entertainment Lusts After Control said by moonpuppy:I bet if Hollywood could detect how many people were in a room, they would charge you per person. You need to think like a movie exec. Charge everyone as if they were a theater. Let the consumer worry about how they have to prove that there isn't 300 people watching at that moment. This isn't the studio's problem.  | |
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Hollywood lawyer - Your honor, the defendant is being charged for having 300 people watch a movie and he refuses to pay. We are asking for damages in the amount of $1 million.
Average homeowner - Your honor, I have a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house and have room for maybe 20 people max in my living room if only 6 sit down. | |
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| Re: Big Entertainment Lusts After Control said by moonpuppy:I can imagine the lawsuit. Hollywood lawyer - Your honor, the defendant is being charged for having 300 people watch a movie and he refuses to pay. We are asking for damages in the amount of $1 million. Average homeowner - Your honor, I have a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house and have room for maybe 20 people max in my living room if only 6 sit down. Well if the MPAA goes by the RIAA playbook, that unfortunately is quite likely. They went after Jammie Thomas for $80k for each of 24 songs and they never actually proved that she actually redistributed it, or if she did, to how many. | |
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| it'll still suck Selection would probably still suck.
Here we are, in the year 2010. I can understand how we don't have: jetpacks. moonbases. flying cars. holodecks. transporters.
What we could have is an online movie service that compares to Rhapsody's music service.
Even there, Rhapsody has to remove things due to licensing messes that are beyond their control.
Maybe someday, our great grandchildren will laugh at how stupid people were in the past with restricting media and feeble attempts at crippled software and services that sucked. | |
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| Re: it'll still suck said by amungus:What we could have is an online movie service that compares to Rhapsody's music service. Even there, Rhapsody has to remove things due to licensing messes that are beyond their control. I believe it's called Netflix. Streaming anything you want. Well, almost anything, due to move houses' restrictions. It's not NF's fault! -- My Blog 2.0 | |
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| Good idea, but.......... Redbox doesn't even offer Blu Ray discs yet and they are talking about streaming now? I like Redbox for a last minute DVD rental but the streaming package has to include Blu Ray or I am not interested. I love Netflix for Blu Ray new releases and they have over 12,000 titles for streaming, about 1/3 in HD. Will Redbox streaming be viewable on a TV or just on a PC/MAC? Will any titles be streamed in HD? | |
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| Re: Good idea, but.......... said by rick0204:Redbox doesn't even offer Blu Ray discs yet and they are talking about streaming now? I like Redbox for a last minute DVD rental but the streaming package has to include Blu Ray or I am not interested. I love Netflix for Blu Ray new releases and they have over 12,000 titles for streaming, about 1/3 in HD. Will Redbox streaming be viewable on a TV or just on a PC/MAC? Will any titles be streamed in HD? Your location must suck....
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| Re: Good idea, but.......... So Redbox is charging more then Netflix if you go by the $10.99 one DVD at a time Netflix plan. That comes out to about $2.75 per Blu Ray for one movie per week, not counting the unlimited streaming at all. The monthly Redbox Blu Ray plan would probably cost about $12.00 per month with 4 rentals and streaming. | |
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4 | Re: Good idea, but.......... said by hottboiinnc:but RedBox gives you the movie right now, not in 3+ days. and they don't throttle you because you rent too much! -- When I gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more new yonooz tonigh molinigh - Ken Lee | |
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| Re: Good idea, but.......... said by XJakeX:After seeing how nicely Blu Ray players upconvert regular DVDs, I don't feel it's worth a higher rental fee. Up conversion is, well, converting up. You can't magically get more correct, detailed information out of a picture then was is there to begin with as compared to a higher resolution source. It may perceptually improve quality of the source, but the higher resolution version should always look better. | |
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| Great! $4 a month for what sounds like unlimited streaming and 4 physical rentals per month!
I'd jump on this, as long as their selection is somewhat good and no contract is required.
Of course after you've watched every movie with RedBox's limited selection (which I have from their physical kiosks), then you're stuck paying $4 for practically nothing. -- My Blog 2.0 | |
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| Re: One complaint: RETURNS! said by Caddyroger:So people are a idiot that wants to read the summary of a movie that they know nothing about. They're probably just reminding him of the lottery addicts he's stuck behind while trying to pay for gas.
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| You obviously have never been stuck behind the people who are: •Incessantly on the cell phone, not actively using the machine •Go through the entire selection reading every description, then let their husband do it, then lets their 2 children do it. •The elderly who need assistance on using the machine
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| Re: One complaint: RETURNS! said by drew:You obviously have never been stuck behind the people who are: •Incessantly on the cell phone, not actively using the machine •Go through the entire selection reading every description, then let their husband do it, then lets their 2 children do it. •The elderly who need assistance on using the machine etc... Great! Start a website, or post videos of this on YOUTUBE.. we've seen the www.peopleofwalmart.com, so we're bound to so see something similar: www.peopleofredbox.com
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 |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4 | Re: Great! said by Gbcue:$4 a month for what sounds like unlimited streaming and 4 physical rentals per month! I'd jump on this, as long as their selection is somewhat good and no contract is required. Of course after you've watched every movie with RedBox's limited selection (which I have from their physical kiosks), then you're stuck paying $4 for practically nothing. thats when you cancel  -- When I gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more new yonooz tonigh molinigh - Ken Lee | |
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i think netflix should do similare, itemize the bill so people see exactly how much of there bill is going to RIAA. i doubt it would do any good, but then again, ya never know. | |
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| RedBox Sucks Butt RedBox Sucks Butt. They have a terrible selection. Their online reservation system is always wrong, and they have billing problems. I got billed 4X for a movie. Each invoice showed the exact same pickup time to the second. Damn, I'm fast!
I used to get stuck behind the morons who took 15 minutes to figure out what they want. Not any more since I quit using RedBox.
Anybody else feel "dirty" after touching a RedBox machine? They always seem so grungy. I always felt like I needed to run home and shower after getting a movie. Blech. -- Looks like Reverend Wright got his wish - God Damn America. Nancy Pelosi - House Minority Leader 2010 Harry Reid - Senate Minority Leader 2010 | |
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 |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4 | Re: RedBox Sucks Butt said by nunya:RedBox Sucks Butt. They have a terrible selection. Their online reservation system is always wrong, and they have billing problems. I got billed 4X for a movie. Each invoice showed the exact same pickup time to the second. Damn, I'm fast! I used to get stuck behind the morons who took 15 minutes to figure out what they want. Not any more since I quit using RedBox. Anybody else feel "dirty" after touching a RedBox machine? They always seem so grungy. I always felt like I needed to run home and shower after getting a movie. Blech. I go after 11pm[never no line], pop it in the laptop, rip it and return it then go home, never overcharged. course i never rent at one redbox and return at another. -- When I gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more new yonooz tonigh molinigh - Ken Lee | |
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 waharperPremium join:2009-01-23 Rocky Mount, NC | Cool I wouldn't cancel my netflix though. Probably will take awhile to watch redbox streaming on my xbox360. And that my friend rocks. | |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4 | Meh lets see: low bitrate, proprietary software, DRM, more expensive and most likely will require silverlight. thanks but no thanks! - i'll stick to DVDs where i can strip the crap, have better bitrates all at 25% of the cost! -- When I gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more new yonooz tonigh molinigh - Ken Lee | |
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