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| Thread ID: 89494 | 2008-05-02 04:44:00 | The kiss of death for the Bluray disk? | vitalstatistix (9182) | PC World Chat |
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| 664921 | 2008-05-02 04:44:00 | Now that movies will be available for download (in the US at least)the same day they are available on DVD there will be no need to rent them on DVD Just have to wait for it to happen here bits.blogs.nytimes.com |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 664922 | 2008-05-02 04:51:00 | New Zealand ISPs do not have sufficient data caps/speeds to be downloading Blu-Ray movies yet. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 664923 | 2008-05-02 04:53:00 | New Zealand ISPs do not have sufficient data caps/speeds to be downloading Blu-Ray movies yet. I guess one can only wait and hope :drool After all its not like the ISP don't have "encouragement" to upgrade their networks. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 664924 | 2008-05-02 05:16:00 | True I was gonna download a movie in bluray format and i was like oh my god 20GB? I got my dad to download it overseas.lol |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 664925 | 2008-05-02 05:18:00 | Yeap, a whole months data cap on one movie - no thanks. :groan: And it would take a whole damn month to download too. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 664926 | 2008-05-02 05:24:00 | FRom what I can tell they are talking about DVDs and not Bluray discs??? DVDs are about 9GB max in size but that includes all the extras that usually come on a DVD. Bluray will stay as they are for HD video and can be anywhere up to 52GB I think. I doubt the downloads would be in MPEG2 format (DVD format) but rather some form of MPEG4. This would make the downloads a lot smaller while still keeping the same DVD resolution / picture quality. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 664927 | 2008-05-02 06:19:00 | FRom what I can tell they are talking about DVDs and not Bluray discs??? DVDs are about 9GB max in size but that includes all the extras that usually come on a DVD. Bluray will stay as they are for HD video and can be anywhere up to 52GB I think. I doubt the downloads would be in MPEG2 format (DVD format) but rather some form of MPEG4. This would make the downloads a lot smaller while still keeping the same DVD resolution / picture quality. The movie downloads are h.264 which is what the current offering on the US iTunes Movie store is. I see Sky are going to offer movie downloads for your PC "Files will be delivered in the craptacular Windows Media format and will come with Microsoft's Advanced DRM 2.9. This means the file will be locked to the machine it is downloaded to and will come with a time-specific licence that may be anything from one week to a month." They failed with HD DVD so now they are going to try with "Windows Advanced DRM" and they have just closed the "Plays for sure" service because it didn't work and no one wanted it. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 664928 | 2008-05-02 08:25:00 | ... "Files will be delivered in the craptacular Windows Media format and will come with Microsoft's Advanced DRM 2.9. This means the file will be locked to the machine it is downloaded to and will come with a time-specific licence that may be anything from one week to a month."... If I can see it, then I can record it ;) |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 664929 | 2008-05-02 09:46:00 | If I can see it, then I can record it ;) I believe that will be the downfall of the service as it is based on the already hacked codec that TVNZ was using for their TVNZ Ondemand service. I think it lasted a whole couple of hours till the DRM was hacked :rolleyes: TVNZ has since opted soley for the streaming only option I believe.:D |
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