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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 3984106" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>While I'm sure eventually downloads will kill off disk formats eventually, IF they can settle the format wars before a strong candidate/service emerges. I think they can get at least 10 yrs out of the disk format.</p><p></p><p>The major bar to any sort of download service killing media based formats is less the delivery than the security. The MPAA and the studios have a completely paranoid fetish about being able to maintain complete control over the content and if they have any choice in the matter will completely eliminate things like "fair use", with the ultimate goal of extracting money from people any time their product is viewed/used in any shape, format or machine. </p><p></p><p>That their concerns about downloads are pointless, since the current technology is essentially already permitting all the things they are afraid of with downloads (movie exchanges over the internet, movie copying, pirated copies, etc..), has done nothing to disuade them from such stupid and pointless demands as insisting that downloaded movies cost the same as a DVD, with no extras like commentary tracks or "making of" documentaries, while being locked to individual machines with no flexibility in transfers or viewing. If anyone thinks I'm kidding, just google some info on the Wal-mart download service that was recently shuttered.</p><p></p><p>With these kinds of restrictions and pricing it's really not surprising that all of the download services have gone over like lead balloons and generally failled horribly. None of them are going to succeed until Hollywood and the content providers recognize that they are going to have to charge less, make the DRM less draconian and increase, rather than decreease the flexibility of use. What they seem to have missed completely about iTune's success with music was that it struck a reasonable balance with cost, ease of use and flexibility, while the DRM was basically transparent to the users.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 3984106, member: 149"] While I'm sure eventually downloads will kill off disk formats eventually, IF they can settle the format wars before a strong candidate/service emerges. I think they can get at least 10 yrs out of the disk format. The major bar to any sort of download service killing media based formats is less the delivery than the security. The MPAA and the studios have a completely paranoid fetish about being able to maintain complete control over the content and if they have any choice in the matter will completely eliminate things like "fair use", with the ultimate goal of extracting money from people any time their product is viewed/used in any shape, format or machine. That their concerns about downloads are pointless, since the current technology is essentially already permitting all the things they are afraid of with downloads (movie exchanges over the internet, movie copying, pirated copies, etc..), has done nothing to disuade them from such stupid and pointless demands as insisting that downloaded movies cost the same as a DVD, with no extras like commentary tracks or "making of" documentaries, while being locked to individual machines with no flexibility in transfers or viewing. If anyone thinks I'm kidding, just google some info on the Wal-mart download service that was recently shuttered. With these kinds of restrictions and pricing it's really not surprising that all of the download services have gone over like lead balloons and generally failled horribly. None of them are going to succeed until Hollywood and the content providers recognize that they are going to have to charge less, make the DRM less draconian and increase, rather than decreease the flexibility of use. What they seem to have missed completely about iTune's success with music was that it struck a reasonable balance with cost, ease of use and flexibility, while the DRM was basically transparent to the users. [/QUOTE]
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