| At last, we can legally download movies from the | | | | videos and DVDs pre-dating 2003 by many years and |
| internet. always, the marketing spiel sounds good at | | | | intend to keep them for many more years, that was |
| first. You can download the same day the DVD is | | | | the whole point of buying them in the first place. This |
| released. It will cost $20-$30. You can download it | | | | has to be a classic case of not thinking something |
| before it appears in rental shops. Studios believe that | | | | through and simply rushing to market to be seen as |
| we want to own our own copies of movies - | | | | a "player". The hare has lost already and the tortoise |
| Correct "The internet...is a viable method of | | | | will be triumphant.It gets worse. The downloaded |
| distributing our content"; President of Universal | | | | movies are [a] more expensive than if purchased in |
| Pictures - CorrectWhy it will fail"CinemaNow will only | | | | the store and [b] do not contain the bonus footage |
| allow the movies to be played only on a single | | | | on the store DVDs. So where is the incentive for me |
| computer""Movielink will allow the movie to be copied | | | | to download a movie again? I've forgotten. |
| onto a DVD, from which the movie can be | | | | Furthermore, where are the savings that a realised in |
| downloaded to two other computers, but it cannot | | | | online distribution (through not producing DVDs for a |
| be played on a conventional DVD player. Movies will | | | | start) passed on to the consumer? How on earth did |
| also not play on handheld players.So I can pay for | | | | the price manage to increase?I don't think this will fly, |
| the DVD, in much the same way as I would if buying | | | | it will be interesting to see if I'm proved wrong.Who |
| it in a store, and can then only play it on my | | | | am I? Why choose to work with me?My background |
| computer. Are they insane? The lifetime of a DVD is | | | | and experience is mainly project management within |
| almost infinitely more than that of a computer. I | | | | diverse environments such as large corporate financial |
| would speculate that few of us still use a computer | | | | institutions, medium-sized technology consultancies |
| that we had in 2003 - am I right? Whereas I've got | | | | and smaller start-ups. |