Movie companies starting to get savvy with DVD's

[cjefferys]

Losing our rights of ownership is nothing to celebrate. Read the fine print on your downloads. You don't own your MP3s, movie downloads or e-books. You are merely granted a limited licence of their use. E-books can also be remotely edited and even deleted from your readers without your knowledge or consent.

I own my books, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays. Meaning, I can sell them, trade, loan or even use them for target practice if I so desire. Because I own them.

Big Business obviously LOVES digital. Because they still get your money but they don't have to actually make anything and you don't get to own anything. I know eventually the day will come when I won't have a choice of physical media. I am not looking forward to that day.

Agree with this 100%. I'll stick with physical media as long as it continues to be made available.

Pictures and music - I store it all out on the cloud for free. All of my home movies as well.

I hope you have that stuff backed up. I wouldn't trust all my home movies and photos being stored online like that without having a physical backup of everything. What if something happens? Some kind of serious server crash, or the company doing the storing could go out of business, anything could happen that's out of your control. On the other hand now, using that method in addition to hard copies isn't a bad idea at all. If a house fire wipes out all your belongings, including photos and videos, at least you have important stuff like that being backed up online.

[ctc]

>New movies would come out on tape at a very expensive "dealer" price at first to dissuade the public from buying a copy - thus keeping things busy at the video rental store

They were expensive 'cos you were byuing the rights to rent them out. Cheap home copies became the thing once VCRs became common and it was realized that people would want to own a copy. (As I recall, companies were surprised by the idea that someone would watch a film over and over.)

Don C.

[thunderbolt]

^^^ That's amazing that the repeat viewing thing came as a surprise, considering how much return business movies like Star Wars, Raiders and ET had during the original thatrical runs.

[ctc]

>considering how much return business movies like Star Wars, Raiders and ET had during the original thatrical runs

Yeah, but think how many disposable films came out during that time. Even the big blockbusters were considered to have limited shelf life.... until Star Wars kinda perfected the marketing thing.

Don C.

[Gorn Captain]

One day, we'll have friends over, and proudly display our "collection": "See, here's my computer. It has 3,000 movies on it. Isn't it beautiful?"

And we won't have action figures anymore, just 3D holograms, stored on...our computer.

Now if we can just digitalize humans, TRON style, we can go all digital. We'll just have a cable wired up our butts, and download our lives.

I'm so looking forward to the future....
I will always be a hardcopy man. I don't want my photos on a computer, I want them in an album. And I'll always buy "physical" media, DVDs and CDs, as long as they're around. I also play my LP records.
It's not that I don't embrace new stuff, but that I don't lose my appreciation of what went before. I love the LOTR movies, but I also (equally) love Metropolis.