Legally download movies soon?
 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Nice concept, it's about time Hollywood starts realizing this kind of potential. On the other hand, I wonder how long it'll take hackers to break the coding so that the movie can be viewed/burned onto regular DVD's.

I wonder if they'll include special features with it, or just the movie. $30 for just the movie is kind of a rip off when DVD's generally include a load of extras on it nowadays (not always great stuff, but it's nice to view sometimes and get some insight as to why they made that movie that way).

Do you guys think this will fare well? If I can buy and download a movie on a portable device (besides a laptop), it might interest me. But again, I'm into extra features too, so if they dont include them, I'll probably just continue buying DVD's (or renting them, a lot of movies nowadays are "watch once and forget about it").

This will sell, but I don't see it doing well. It's WAY too restrictive. Also, why pay when you can get the DVD rip the same day or earlier, for free?

I just hope the video quality isn't severely comprised for the sake of bandwidth, otherwise...netflix. :)

I'm still not paying $20-30 to download what can be bought at the store, or buying at the store what can be downloaded.

Although I must say I rarely take the time to download movies anymore.

I'd rather just take the DVD and rip it to a Video iPod. It's a hell of a lot easier. Also, it's gonna be massive files if they include a crapload of extras.

I've read some about it, and it seems ridiculous to me. You can't really see it on a regular television, and you can't burn it in a format DVD-players can read... Then what's the fricking point? If something like this should get around, I'd say it should be easier than firing up Limewire or the like and download it there. For free. And in a format actually worth having...

I'd like to present the movie and music industry a very popular and successful format that doesn't suffer from user restrictions, copy protection or content encryption:

It's called a book.

Time to stop the digital nonsense.

You've never heard of e-books have you? I can download most books online. Same with magazines.

I like how they're charging more for something that is much more restrictive than DVDs. I can go to Walmart and pay under $20 for a new release {and not have to tie up my bandwidth downloading some five gig file}, and I can then watch the DVD on pretty much any DVD player in the country. Or I could download the movie {in who knows what quality}, and if the provider is in an especially good mood that day, be allowed to move the file to one or two other computers, and pay more. I'm sorry but they need to do better than that.

Regardless of its value, I think the mere fact that it isn't available on iTunes (which would also do away with much of the price and restriction BS) makes the whole deal rather silly; nobody is going to use this, and downloading movies legally will be just another fantasy until Apple starts selling them.

By mentioning the book as an example I tried to point out a commercially successful format without any kind of restriction at all.

With the movie and music industry all whining about piracy, you'd think that book publishers would have been out of the business since long ago.

I heard this shit recently launched, and with the movies themselves bieng higher in price i dont see the point of it.

Its kind of like my stand on UMD movies, but with those at least it has other features and shit.