Actually for someone who wants to OWN their media, you're pretty resistant of the best way to own your own media: Having an electronic receipt.
Say you're on a road trip and you bring your favorite movie with you, then all the sudden without you realizing it, the disc falls on the floor and the for the next few hours it's getting completely destroyed as it gets scraped across the floor.
Now unless you've illegally copied your DVD you're completely screwed, but with a digital purchase, all you'd have to do is go to whoever you bought your movie from and ask for a new one and your old one to get de-authorized.
Also, with a digital copy of your stuff it's much easier to back your stuff up (to HDDs), versus having to rip ISOs or copy from DVD to DVD.
As was mentioned in the article, the real reason DD has not taken hold is because of ARTIFICIAL limitations in the distribution. Someone just needs to come up with something like MS' Plays For Sure but for Video and problem solved. Also, tell the movie studios to get their collective heads out of their ass and quit restricting digital movie release dates.
Oh and btw, as is evidenced by the downfall of HD-DVD, I don't really think anybody cares about "interactive features". They just want to rent the movie, watch it once, and be done with it. If they want interactive, they'll whip out their laptop or phone and pull up IMDB.
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CB17 @ Mar 15th 2008 4:56AM
@Jon
Actually for someone who wants to OWN their media, you're pretty resistant of the best way to own your own media: Having an electronic receipt.
Say you're on a road trip and you bring your favorite movie with you, then all the sudden without you realizing it, the disc falls on the floor and the for the next few hours it's getting completely destroyed as it gets scraped across the floor.
Now unless you've illegally copied your DVD you're completely screwed, but with a digital purchase, all you'd have to do is go to whoever you bought your movie from and ask for a new one and your old one to get de-authorized.
Also, with a digital copy of your stuff it's much easier to back your stuff up (to HDDs), versus having to rip ISOs or copy from DVD to DVD.
As was mentioned in the article, the real reason DD has not taken hold is because of ARTIFICIAL limitations in the distribution. Someone just needs to come up with something like MS' Plays For Sure but for Video and problem solved. Also, tell the movie studios to get their collective heads out of their ass and quit restricting digital movie release dates.
Oh and btw, as is evidenced by the downfall of HD-DVD, I don't really think anybody cares about "interactive features". They just want to rent the movie, watch it once, and be done with it. If they want interactive, they'll whip out their laptop or phone and pull up IMDB.