Hollywood Studios: Digital Downloads Not Ready Options

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Hollywood Studios: Digital Downloads Not Ready Posted by XanTium | March 12 23:21 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From tvpredictions.com: [QUOTE] Digital downloads via Broadband connections are years away from replacing Blu-ray high-def and standard-def DVDs. That's the consensus of top Hollywood studio executives, as reported today by Video Business. Sven Davidson, vice president of content development for Fox: "Demand for downloading is very small and the satisfaction is smaller," he said. "The pipelines aren't big enough." [/QUOTE] Full Story: tvpredictions.com

[midnightcharger2]

maybe someone should introduce them to the torrent sites

Translation into plain English for their quote.

"We don't want to encourage piracy more that what is already going on in the world now".

[88 Ecko Unltd 88]

LMAO

[signal-to-noise-ratio]

Netflix works just fine at friends house he has a 6 or 10 mbit downstream cable connection which I know isnt fast. I have a 1.5 which I split with roomate so its fastest we have for now. Over friends Netflix buffers in under 20 seconds and full screen quality is decent. Havent tried netflix here since no longer on windows.

[ewok666]

maybe someone should introduce them to the torrent sites

Translation into plain English for their quote.

"We don't want to encourage piracy more that what is already going on in the world now".

Who needs torrents when newsgroups are your online HD 'rental' place with unbeatable rates ;-) Oh no, wait......there is no HD piracy because they conceived yet another UNBREAKABLE content encryption ;-)))

Wise move to delay legal downloads!

[warmaster_670]

the day digital downloads are standard is teh day i pirate everything.

after all, why should i buy it if im getting the exact same thing if i pirate it?

i mean, at least now i get the nice case, and the discs and crap.

digital downloads will never be the standard as long as people acutally like owning what they buy

[twistedsymphony]

the day digital downloads are standard is teh day i pirate everything.

after all, why should i buy it if im getting the exact same thing if i pirate it?

i mean, at least now i get the nice case, and the discs and crap.

digital downloads will never be the standard as long as people acutally like owning what they buy

they'll be the standard when you don't have another option as to the format you can buy.

How many XBLA games did you buy on a physical CD... Not much of a choice there...

[HotKnife420]

the day digital downloads are standard is teh day i pirate everything.

after all, why should i buy it if im getting the exact same thing if i pirate it?

i mean, at least now i get the nice case, and the discs and crap.

digital downloads will never be the standard as long as people acutally like owning what they buy

What are you talking about? You know we have full color printers and staplers (cover + manual), and blank optical media and drives to write to said media. Plastic storage cases aren't exactly hidden from the public, pirate groups have been pirating all the content of media for years. Piracy is perceived as such a threat to the industry because it's possible to make a perfect pirate copy of something.

By the logic you stated, if they were to do away with traffic signals and force the driver to simply 'be aware of other drivers, and be courteous', you would drive recklessly as you flip off all other drivers, simply because you *can*? I happen to know of a few stores that don't have security cameras. Perhaps I should go looting at one, because I'd have the ability to.

[eldritch2k4]

maybe someone should introduce them to the torrent sites

Translation into plain English for their quote.

"We don't want to encourage piracy more that what is already going on in the world now".

Actually, a translation into plain English for their quote would be:
"There isn't enough bandwidth to supply movies to every movie watching household in America, let alone the world, via the Internet at SD resolution/bitrate, let alone HD resolution/bitrate."

Also, downloading a single DVD-DL worth of content from a torrent site takes anywhere from 4 hours to a week. When I want to watch a movie, I want to do it then or, at the very most, within the hour it takes me to drive from my house to the nearest video retailer.

P2P has no place in the delivery of LEGAL copyrighted materials. It is too easy to get a torrent from someone who purchased the torrent and pirate it.

Netflix works just fine at friends house he has a 6 or 10 mbit downstream cable connection which I know isnt fast. I have a 1.5 which I split with roomate so its fastest we have for now. Over friends Netflix buffers in under 20 seconds and full screen quality is decent. Havent tried netflix here since no longer on windows.

Mostly see above, but Netflix doesn't have near the quality video that Blu-ray has. Netflix =/= HD.

[Sidenote]
This thread is seriously bordering on the advocation of piracy.

[warmaster_670]

What are you talking about? You know we have full color printers and staplers (cover + manual), and blank optical media and drives to write to said media. Plastic storage cases aren't exactly hidden from the public, pirate groups have been pirating all the content of media for years. Piracy is perceived as such a threat to the industry because it's possible to make a perfect pirate copy of something.

By the logic you stated, if they were to do away with traffic signals and force the driver to simply 'be aware of other drivers, and be courteous', you would drive recklessly as you flip off all other drivers, simply because you *can*? I happen to know of a few stores that don't have security cameras. Perhaps I should go looting at one, because I'd have the ability to.

what the f**k are you talking about? so what we have printers and crap, doesnt change any of what i said.

and your traffic things has nothing to do with what i said either

[0794]

these type of decisions within the movie industry is exactly why they are "suffering" so much from both physical and online piracy as they are completely ignorant to the consumer's wishes for content distribution - including on-demand.

BOTH digital and optical HD distribution can and should co-exist as there are different reasons for consumers to choose both...