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- 0x2a, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20isohunt or TPB?
Oh the choices. - aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13DVD for sure. Great quality, and looks fine in HD. I have an iPod with Video and when I really want a movie to go, I have decrypted and converted. It probably is not legal, but I buy all of my own content and I feel that it is within my own right.
So, DVD it is. - deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9DO you really think the MPAA will allow for burning of downloaded movies?
- florin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7DVDs are fine for me and I don't see myself cancelling my Netflix subscription any time soon, thank you.
- kalmi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6They won't, but I'm sure there will be some workaround.
- theLEGENDisBACK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I like to buy them.... Make sure i get all my bonus material and i like the real cases
- deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Why would you download a crappy sub-VGA movie from iTunes that you can only play on an iPod or PC when you could get DVD quality + special features from a DVD disc that you could do whatever you want with it.
- jiub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sure I'll download, the moment I can burn them to a DVD.
- Fly1m1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The three R's
Rent....Rip.....Repeat - Dempf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Bittorrent FTW
- LNahid2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If I'm buying something, definitely DVD. The copy protection is a lot easier to break on DVDs than the DRM on online media.
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For now...I'll stick with buying and renting DVDs. Eventually you run out of hard drive space, don't feel like converting, nor want to worry about quality of whatever you're downloading, nor worry about whether your ISP will shut you off because of your illegal downloads. I make more than enough money to bypass all that nonsense, so I'll continue to buy.
- michaelw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Downloads will not be able to compete quality-wise with BluRay & HD DVD.
You won't see physical discs disappearing anytime soon. - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@deanlowe, did it ever occur to you that a higher quality download might be available for long format video?
Have you seen the HD trailers at apple.com/quicktime? They look good and they're not impossibly huge. - IkLoma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I usually download first and if a movie is good i get it on DVD. think i will continue to do that to support the movies i like and delete the crappy ones :)
- izzybomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2around $100
- ryanknapper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I have messed up my hard drives too many times to trust download only products. When I run out of space I want to be able to clear up space without loosing my movies forever.
- Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I prefer netflix, they have a shipping station here locally.
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because some of us have tastes in movies that range far beyond Adam Sandler flicks and prefer a variery of tens of thousands of movies instead of twenty?
I'm not saying I don't also watch popular movies, I'm no arthouse snob. I'm saying that I really like a lot of different stuff. - fieldDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DVD++
Sure torrents are nice and the TPB is fun. but all to often you find yourself downloading something just because it has a great seed/leech ratio.
I put the vote toward a netFlix style service.
Easy. Convenient. Time Shifted Discs. What more could you want? - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And... how much do upconverted DVD players cost?
- lucas911993, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You people and your desire to make everything small and crappy. I hope Apple NEVER gets their hands on video. I hope it all stays on DVD and (in the coming months) ALL goes to Blu-Ray (screw DVD-HD and those cheap shortcut dorks at Toshiba, BLU-RAY is better in EVERY way).
Ill put videos on my iPod when it can hold 10,000 High-Definition Movies, has a DVi or HDMI output, and my entire Vinyl / SACD / and CD collection (in order of decending quality) such that ears can't tell a difference. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rent and Rip... baby.... it's the only way to keep the studios in line.
download?
I already do that using piratesbay and bittorrent.
...oh, it was a rhetorical question. - stappawho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I rarely buy DVD's. I think I have maybe 20, and they are only ones that I know I'll watch over and over. Right now it's blockbuster online. When I get around to a PS3 or when Blu-ray or HD-DVD hits $300 I'll buy a standalone player. That and watch HD movies on cable.
It's just not worth downloading and burning for me. I feel that most if not all of the time the quality is degraded too much. I have a nice HDTV and a home theater set up, I'm not going to get all cheap when it comes to content. I pay like $15 for 2 at a time from blockbuster. Between the mail and my in-store coupons I can easily go through 5 movies a week. That's more than enough.
Yeah great, you got it for free, too bad the quality sucks. Also, how many of you actually watch all these movies you rip more than once? I remember thinking it was cool back in the Napster and Kazaa days when I got all this music for free. Then I got over it and realized the quality was complete ass. And that was stuff that was actually worth listening too again. What good are 200 DVD's that you%u2019ll never watch? - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1> DO you really think the MPAA will allow for burning of downloaded movies?
Video download services are going to need to compete with Netflix and I can't see any reason to download when I can get loads of DVDs each month for a fixed price. There has to be some compelling advantage to this arrangement. If I'm not allowed to burn DVDs of downloaded movies, why on earth would I bother? Even the issue of convenience and speed is not that big a deal. Netflix can get movies to you in 24-48 hours. That's not as convenient, but it's way less expensive per movie. - bchow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Re-selling of DVDs makes it possible to watch any new film for $5 or less.
With older films you often sell them for the price you bought them used or even make a profit.
As long as I can't re-sell downloads I will not buy them when the film is also available on DVD for an acceptable price. - izzybomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To play DivX movies on compatible players you have to get their mpeg2 codec or something. I downloaded a divx movie, burned it and put it in our new played with divx support and it didnt do anything.
- kalmi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Buy a DivX compatible DVD player, and you don't have to convert, just dl and burn...
Also DivX compatible players are not too expensive nowadays... - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why would you download a movie in crappy DVD quality when you could buy an HD version on ITMS for $10?
That could really spell doom for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ superkendall. Huh?
- SimonSimian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 I buy DVDs, but I usually end up selling them. I download movies too, but I usually delete them after wards. There are only a handful of movies I want to watch again and again.
I was recently unemployed for a few months and I downloaded one or two movies a day. I didn't convert them to DVD and I didn't even store them on my hard drive. I streamed them from a Usenet provider to a PC connected to my television. The quality was good enough for me; the resolution is usually only marginally lower than that of a DVD, and the DivX and XviD codecs, especially recent versions, handle most movies very well.
However, downloading movies will probably not become mainstream just yet thanks to HDTV and Blu-Ray (the inevitable winner of the format war). We'll start to insist upon higher resolution content and most of our Internet connections will be too slow for it. We'll have to (...*****...) pay for the movies we watch. - jtrost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DVDs for sure. I like having shelves full of DVDs and a computer with a lot of free space. Plus when I want to take my DVDs somewhere I don't want to haul my computer with me.
- Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I think you're just looking in the wrong place, because I assure you, there are plenty of whole DVD-R's available. And it only takes about 1,5 hours to download a DVD at 800kbps.
- aussieaubs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2$$$
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, because I want ***** over-compressed garbage that takes longer to download than it takes 99 percent of the people in America to drive to a Blockbuster. And when I get it, I want to sit hunched over my keyboard, watching it on my monitor instead of in a comfy living room watching a big-ass TV with a full-sized surround setup.
Hooray for downloading. Once a few people accept it, we'll all be subjected to this ***** and quality, just when you thought it was as low as it could go, will get worse. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My TV is a 65" widescreen. However, my main computer monitor is a 30" ACD. So it's more than good enough for leaning back in the office chair and watching a movie on.
If someone someday offers unlimited movie downloads and viewings for a set price per month and has a HUGE collection (not those crappy services advertising on television recently), then I'd go for it. As long as the price was only around $10 and could download a full movie in high quality xvid format within about an hour.
But frankly, it's hard to beat bit torrent. You can download movies that just came out in theaters (with fairly decent quality usually) and be watching them an hour or two later. Then delete them when you're done. Totally free.
There is no way I would pay $10 to go see a movie in the theater. In fact, I wouldn't pay $1 to see a movie in a theater. I just don't care for the theater experience. I also don't care to BUY a DVD. Why would I want to pay something that I only need to watch once?
Frankly, the "on demand" stuff on Comcast and elsewhere is getting closer to the right solution. They just need to stop charging $4-15 each and letting you only view them for 24 hours. And they definitely need a larger selection. A few hundred movies (tops) isn't very good. When they have 50,000+, maybe we can do business. - N3wtR0ckn13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1download for sure. many schools here in california are already testing internet 2. it's blazing fast. at some conference in san diego they showed broadcast hd video.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Why would you download a movie in crappy DVD quality when you could buy an HD version on ITMS for $10?"
Why would you pay $10 to see a movie under ANY circumstances?! There is much better entertainment available for $5/hr. - saman82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0what can u say about http://coplace.com it offers you to download. not for free bt for cheap. should we also kill it huh?
- crashingechelon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Really though, as I wished they would have made UMD/DVD combo packs more avaliable in the US this would have done better. As for downloading movies which what the topic is, they should have the download on the DVD disc itself or HD-DVD/BluRay which ever wins, so you could transfer it to an iPod, PSP, or whatever. I think I'll just stick with store bought DVD discs.
- SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They can take away my Netflix subscription when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
The local Blockbusters and Hollywoods of the world aren't even in the same league. They have next to nothing in stock that interests me, and I do stop in to them from time to time to browse.
Netflix is amazing for documentaries, which I love, and it's also much easier to find relatively obscure foreign films. Even TV shows are much easier to rent via Netflix IMO. - sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11. buy and xbox
2. mod and put XBMC on it.
3. ????
4. Profit! - Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The DVD-R would be around 4-8gb. It's faster just to download the movie in AVI, convert, then burn. That's why you don't see sites post DVD-R movies. It's just too damn big and too damn long to download.
- DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If I have to pay > DVD
If I don't have to pay > Download - michaelrjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I don't see movie-downloading making it mainstream for quite a few years to come. The infrastructure just isn't in place.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1converting movies suck, but if i had a media center pc hooked to my tv, it would be on! I watch youtube more than my regular tv , i would love to raid a couple of 300 gb or 400gb hd's for a media center ;)
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Download for meh.
Always. - twisterX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Hell yea. Don't forget about TB, TL and FL!! LOL
- bluesbopper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0As far as downloading,I will still go to the movies,It only cost 2.00 per person where I live.
Besides I would not give more than 5 dollars a head for the trash that is being put out now.Not trying to be pessimistic but the truth is the truth! Downloading or renting a DVD just doesn't interest me any more, the content of the movies are not what they use to be. I used to be a movie nut but not anymore I have other things to do. - reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0For now upconverted DVDs look pretty good, but I hope that movie downloads in HD(720p at least) are available for download in the future($15-$20 would be reasonable I guess).
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