P2 just got so much more interesting

Zig_Zigman said:
The studios have seen what has happened to music. Music sales are down. I can go out to the net and get almost any song I want in minutes.

They are going to do what they can to prevent this from happening to films. I'm not saying they won't blow it royally, because they will. But this is their thinking. Releasing films ppv via the net scares the living sh*t out of them because these can be easily copied.
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Virum is right, the music industry is entirely different then the music industry. You listen to songs over and over again. Most movies you watch once or twice and buy (for a pretty fair price) if you really enjoy it. With a NetFlix account you can watch just about any movie you want for next to nothing ($17 a month...that's less then one music CD by their old price standards).

While not condoning piracy, the music industry really got what they deserved with their price gouging. Additional, when was the last time you heard an album that had more then one or two good songs (ok a few but not many). This $.99 a song is absolutely brilliant. Release an album with 12 good songs and they are back to making the same profit per album (with no wholesale/retail or hardware costs the profits would be even higher).

The movie industry has burned itself with the high theatrical prices but you can't pirate the theatre experience. I am down to about 8 movies in the theatre a year. A night at the movies is almost as much as going to a play now.

Now if they try charging $40 or so for a blu-ray movie disc, they might start seeing some people resort to a Napster type revolution.

Guess this getting a little off topic :)
 
The difference in movies of course is no-one is only going to buy scene at a time for .99 each.
They'll always have to sell the entire movie, because that's the only way people want it.
 
The Music Business Vs. the Movie Business debate is Apples to Oranges.

YES...they are both fruits that make money by selling entertainment. That's about where the similarites end. :happy:

~reservoir~
 
thisiswells said:
The difference in movies of course is no-one is only going to buy scene at a time for .99 each.
They'll always have to sell the entire movie, because that's the only way people want it.
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Yeah the closest analogy would be if a studio, say 20th Century Fox, forced you to buy their movies in bulk. You want the latest Star Wars, well you have to buy that with 5 other crappy movies at $100.
 
in the long run the studios should concentrate on developping web-applications, because that will be the future and not mess into the the hardware technologies.
looks like we will see HD-DVD and BlueRay and no hybrid so soon. so be it. the market will demand and there will be PCs with HD-DVD drives and some with BlueRay drives (like the playstation).
the studios will not have much say in this.
in 10 years we won´t need much of that stuff anyway when we are all in a wirelessworld and simply stream films and/or pre-load them onto the harddrives in our TV-sets. piracy will always exist and as one stated: the musicindustry does get pirated because the options for consumers have been ridiculous with bad products, high prices and lame safety measures.

anyway: back to the thread: burners will arrive and they will allow us to assure the P2 solution to be longterm. woohoooo
 
I see piracy not being a big issue in ten years time because if we're all streaming films it will make more sense for studios to adopt Netflix like services where people pay a flat fee and can watch anything at anytime. I like owning DVDs, but if I have instantaneous access to a library of over 50,000 films, I think I can live without a shelf of dvds.

HD-DVD makes sense from an archiving standpoint, but tv and internet are starting to blend together and on demand is so much easier than dealing with two competing dvd formats vying for the market.
 
On demand in-room theater movies are already happening in select four star hotels.
I watched National Treasure in the comforts of Hilton Americas back in February.

What gives? Why not have the same (overpriced) service available at home?
(BTW, corporate videography rocks!!)
 
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