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The 24 hour rental is a old outdated business model and streaming like Netflix does is the future and downloads will only be for users with portable devices who don't have internet access in 2-3 years .
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/paramount-cu...
NO, not the NH primaries,....
Paramount: "Current plan is to support the HD DVD format." Currently.
That said, it will be a few years before we can see decent HD streaming at worldwide level (remember, there's a few pieces of inhabited land outside the US), and streaming is what studios like, as stated above.
Me, I though Billg's CES keynote was a tad short, I wonder if HD DVD-related stuff was not removed at the 11th hour... ;)
There's a lot of assumptions going on here.
1. First of all that all set tops, televisions sets, and God may now what more would be running Microsoft software, I doubt that that will happen
2. Industry going to prefer downloading and not streaming
3. Sufficient bandwidth available (if all people start doing this, bandwidth will become a problem
4. Children like to watch movies over and over again. Downloads will have some kind of DRM assigned to it, how will this handle the different locations where movies are seen.
5. Computers and DVD players will be blu ray, another win for Java..
6. Do you sincerely think that the Blu Ray companies are going to support Microsoft in their hardware, I doubt it...
It opens a lot of possibilities, but whether Microsoft is the one party going to benefit, I sincerely doubt it.
What I don't like about BRay is the fact that I will have to buy the DVD as well as the BRay if I want to play the movie in the car, or copy it to iPod etc... I can't see the DRM heavy managed copy working with many devices. Now the competition is disappearing there won't be much incentive to provide combo disks like we had with HDDVD.
1. Let's say I want to watch a particular movie tonight. I get the popcorn, I get the drinks, I sit down in my comfortable chair. Oops the net is down Sh%^&*!
2. I buy all my movies from one service that allows me to stream my movies anytime I want.Oops the company goes bankrupt Cr%^&*!
The is nothing like having the physical object in your hands, Watch what I want when I want.
http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/01/08/irony-al...
I don't see downloads replacing physical media for high-def movies in the near future. Not in the same way that dowlnloads are ousting CDs, anyway.
People - generally - don't have the hardware or bandwidth to make it a viable proposition. Blu-ray it is then.
X-box live movie downloads last 14 days if you do not watch them. Once you start watching is when the 24hr drm deathclock kicks in.
According to gizmodo, http://gizmodo.com/341938/sony-blu+ray+to+psp-m... it appears that you will be able to take your BlueRay to go, but only if you have a PSP.
Well played Sony, Well played.
(At least I have an overpriced usb DVD add-on aka the 360 HD-DVD drive.)
Now, MS needs to go ahead with a triple punch and announce a BlueRay add on for the 360, Content transfer from the 360 to Zune, and movie purchases through Zune/360.
Until then, it appears Sony and Apple have an upper hand.
I'm sure most of the people at the "BlogHaus" do other geeky, nerdy things most of the rest of the world doesn't do. I'd hardly call people at the BlogHaus any type of barometer. Until the average Joe can do this as easily as changing a channel, it's not happening anytime soon.
1. Even if by some parting-of-the-Red-Sea miracle, and the world tunes into easy DRM-free cheap downloadable content (another miracle itself) by tomorrow morning, Microsoft is not automatically in a position to benefit. Walmart/HP shut their doors, and iTunes video sales are quite the downer. Another Microsoft URGE? Please. And I don't buy the conspiracy theories that Microsoft supported the loser, just to grant a market for downloadable content. HD-DVD had Microsoft software, they stood to benefit, they stood to reap future rewards, hardware and softwarewise. As of now, they are shut-out -- that supposed "last laugh" is really a belly-wail.
2. Bloghaus is hardly a representative audience, besides, I'd bet most of them are private tracker torrentheads, and no commerical replacement, however good, can't ever beat the free. You have to fiddle with codecs, demuxing and various sync issues at times, nothing too out there for that crowd. But the general public, not a chance.
3. Physical media, can be watched over and over, is not tied to one machine (well once standards are more common), can be rented or borrowed, and is easy to purchase, display and bundle. And can be watched whenever YOU want to, not on some automatic 14-day countdown.
4. Bandwith and time. It's not some compressed-to-heck smallish mp3's, 4.5 gigs is huge enough, the Blu-ray kick-up's, are going to require fiber-like speeds. And even then, they might just offer the movie itself, without the some of the multi-gigged special-feature extra's that people actually want. Maybe the Doogie Bloghausers don't mind spending hours downloading movies, but the mass market wants it now, like yesterday.
5. Microsoft IPTV is another "Xbox 360 success story", just getting there will cost billions and billions, with no profit in sight. Pushing IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD into the hodgepodge Microsoft Connected TV business group, is another Microsoft Enterprise trainwreck, no clear focus with nowhere to go. Exit the Consumer markets already.
lol - the same mistake Akimbo made in selling themselves short to Microsoft media center platform (but thats a discussion for another day) is that hardware vendors sell themselves short for content when the ownership of the physical space in a customers home is far more key.
Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net