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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mntwister @ Dec 18th 2008 12:58AM
If it is something you can't buy or own, I'm not in. I don't buy on demand, I but blu-ray discs so I can play them when I feel like it. If you could download these to own in high def 1080p and lossless audio, I would then be intrigued. The thing that still stops me is that all storage drives eventually fail, blu-ray discs will not. I use Dish Network's external hard drive feature and have 3 750gb drives full of hd movies, and a few months ago, one of them (Seagate) failed and content can not be retreived. So that has put me off of buying anything in digital (download) form.
Tim Lastoria @ Dec 18th 2008 3:02AM
If you lost the movies and you actually downloaded them legally, you can re-download them. I'm going to assume that you ripped some movies illegally from Blockbuster or downloaded them.
squiggleslash @ Dec 18th 2008 10:30AM
I would imagine that he didn't download anything, he DVR'd them.
Losing the contents of my EHD for my Dish DVR is also something that bothers me. I'm looking into a backup strategy at some point, the disks are basic GNU/Linux ext3 formatted volumes, so in theory it's at least possible to copy the movies to a back-up location but it's not clear to me that copying them to another EHD will "just work". I'll have to play with it.
At this point I'm interested to know if XStreamHD will work as an on-demand PPV service, or use a subscription model.