Studios ok users burning drm'd movie downloads to dvd

[0roo0roo]

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[pontifex]

direct2drive sells downloadable movies and they are the same prices, if not more, as buying a physical dvd.

 

[nakedfrog]

In other news, studios still continue to not get it.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Wow, I can't wait!!!1!11!!!1!

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: pontifex
direct2drive sells downloadable movies and they are the same prices, if not more, as buying a physical dvd.

I don't even understand this business model. It would actually be faster to drive to the nearest BestBuy and pick up the DVD. I'd also have the full package. What group ar ethey trying to target? Lazy people that don't want to leave their house?

 

[ebaycj]

These use CSS "encryption", the same as is used in existing pressed DVD's.

Just pay, download the .ISO, (optionally burn it), run DVD Decrypter (or DeCSS), then burn your newly decrypted VOB files to disk (as many times as you want, for offsite backup purposes only of course).

What's the problem?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: pontifex
direct2drive sells downloadable movies and they are the same prices, if not more, as buying a physical dvd.

I don't even understand this business model. It would actually be faster to drive to the nearest BestBuy and pick up the DVD. I'd also have the full package. What group ar ethey trying to target? Lazy people that don't want to leave their house?

not everyone lives 5 minutes from a BB. I live 45 minutes away from a BB or any stores that have any decent seelction of movies for sale. I wouldn't buy a movie from D2D but I have bought games from them.

you could ask why BB (or any store) has a web presence or why NewEgg has one. as fas as i know, NewEgg doesn't have a store front. Its convenience.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: pontifex
direct2drive sells downloadable movies and they are the same prices, if not more, as buying a physical dvd.

I don't even understand this business model. It would actually be faster to drive to the nearest BestBuy and pick up the DVD. I'd also have the full package. What group ar ethey trying to target? Lazy people that don't want to leave their house?

Well if you have fast broadband, it can actually be faster (or more convenient) to download. Best Buy for me is a 10 minute drive each way assuming good road conditions. Add 10 minutes in the store, and we're at a total of 30 minutes round trip.

I can download at 32mbit/sec, which is 4mbyte/sec.
4.5GB DVD = 1125 seconds (just under 19 minutes)
Add another 6 minutes to burn the DVD and we're at 25 minutes. And I never left the house. And I probably didn't pay sales tax.

This is my real life situation now. The total time to download, which is accounts for MOST of the time in the second scenario (above), will only get shorter in the future with faster broadband connections.

So maybe at this point in time it's pretty close to even (between downloading vs going to best buy), in the future (hopefully the near future), downloading will be hands down faster.

EDIT: And this assumes that the Best Buy store even has the DVD in stock. So there is also a supply-chain benefit to the movie studios too, they don't have to pay to print/wholesale/distribute physical disks in this scenario, which SHOULD lead to lower prices for the download product. Bad for Best Buy, Good for me.

 

[0roo0roo]

should lead to lower prices,but doesn't. since they seriously don't want to undercut their dvd market. just look at all the download services they've nhad out already. and 4.35gb? thats single layer garbage. a good dvd set can be 2 dual layer discs, and thats atleast 14gb.