I'm sure no one will mind that the $2000 HDTV they just bought won't actually play HD movies.
Oh, wait. Yes they will.
So, basically, out of the 20% saturation of HDTV that's out there now, exactly zero of them will play HD movies. People who've already bought their HDTVs are the best possble market for a new DVD format. And yet for existing HDTVs, the only access option will be 480p analog -- no better than current DVDs.
And heaven knows that they need consumers badly -- they'll have $500+ players with only a few titles and an ongoing standards war between formats.
Good luck with getting consumer adoption of the new formats.
My guess is that these things will die on the vine unless they sell out the movie industry and offers up an analog adapter that allows you to watch 720 and 1080 video through component video connectors.
Why make consumers criminals? It doesn't make sense! If you buy this technology shouldn't you be allowed to play it?
I have a collection of CD's which I have uploaded to my computer. I play these through my stereo system as a music jukebox. In the RIAA's mind I am not abiding by fair use. They forget the fact that I, unlike many others, have paid for every CD that I have. Still they label me as being unfair and would gladly label me a criminal if they could!
The same thing is happening with the movie studios. If I were to purchase a new format HD movie, I would be a criminal in their eyes for playing it on my computer. But remember, I am saying if I purchased it, not downloaded it or anything else, purchased it. I suppose I could download the HD video from some peer-to-peer system and not have any restrictions on how I play it (and save my money). I won't though, but maybe thats what they want...
I have been building up my computer system for some time to make it a big part of my home theater. It seems to be the logical step. I guess I won't be purchasing a Media Center PC as I thought I would as it would most likely restrict my access as well.
Why consider a paying consumer to be a criminal for getting a simple movie to play on your computer in the rewsolution it would be presented on a HD player? It definately won't stop the real criminals from pirating movies, but it might stop me from purchasing the new format.
Sadly though, I am one of the people that was really looking forward to HD and probably would have been an early adopter...
Do all these companies think we are made of money?
How much more debt do they want us to be, come on, I mean this is insane, having to buy another Drive, just to make the new dvds work in the computer, or not knowing if the monitor will work with the new discs when they come out..I don't know about everyone else but I just purchased my computer 2years ago, and I might not be able to watch dvd movies in it?? I think they are nuts to have to make us have to spend more money just to make everything work the way that "they want it too" not everyone steals movies, there are lot of people who buy them" and as for music, most of the songs that people get these days are the ones that have already been out for years and years prior all the royalities have already been given to the people who made them, and songs these days aren't made like they were before, most people these days use computers to create their cds, they don't stand in a booth and create the music the way it used to be made a long time ago, these days music groups want easier ways to make the music, which means using a computer or using a song that has since already been out, and redoing it, not many singers use their own songs these days anyhow.. they take them from other singers who have sung them years and years earlier to put their own spin on them..isn't that stealing from them? Anyway, my point is this, I'm stick of having to upgrade and upgrade my system just because they've decided that something needs to be changed, but their putting everyone else in debt because of it. Can they make a computer that can be upgraded just with software, and that will take all the hardware drivers, that are out there, and the hardware thats in the computer would work like the drivers that are installed? Seems to me that would be a lot cheaper on many people if someone created something like that. A computer that has to be upgraded after a motherboard is no good is a waist, we should be able to interchange the motherboard for the things that we want, just like legos...
With the complex DRM equipment needed just to get the HD picture quality...and the notion that all consumers are criminals, I doubt many consumers will be stupid enough to support this "new" format. HD quality isn't even much better than the PQ of a progressive output DVD player.
Until the infighting stops and the developers get their stuff together (...this is a public forum) they exactly ZERO of my dollars. They need to play out their industrial warfare between themselves and not use the consumers as soldiers in a battle for supremacy. I'll play ONLY after somebody decides to yield and we have one and only one HD format for DVD.
This is the biggest mess I have ever heard of, I work in technology, if I would subject our customers with this wishy-washy crap, half baked mixed with two different standards at... well almost both ends... I would be out of business... oh wait, I just have to be a cartel. LOL
Seriously, if you think I'm seriously going to go through all this trouble just to see a movie, forget it, I'll find another way to relax. Besides what is so low quality with DVDs today that I would want even higher definition? They just want us to pay for their initial lack of proper copy protection, the only way to get us to buy in is to make us think we need higher definition. Thanks for the push style marketing ploy but I'm not made of money, no Rolls sitting in my guarage. LOL
For me, this is definitely a time to not only let the formats slug it out, but to decide whether it is time stop buying entertainment 'atoms' and switch permanently to buying 'bits'.
There's too much going on now with. Rumors also say that Sony's PS3 will force the consumer to go online and register their games...and disallow someone else from playing that same game on their box...no more letting a buddy borrow your game. If that works for their games, do you think DVDs/CDs are far behind?
For the forseeable future, I'm forgoing buying anything. I stick to my digital cable and get my movies at home via HBO/ShowTime. I'll buy my music online and take it and play it where ever I want. When the dusts clears (probably sometime in 2007) I'll decide what is best.
All this is going to do is turn the hacker community against them even more. Within a few weeks there should be a patch available for vista. In the mean time it just shows why you should not update to vista. With the software and hardware incompatibilities being as bad as they are and microsoft pulling this stunt why buy would you even want there new OS. More of a reason to go Linux which a lot of people already have. I would say mac but friends dont let friends go mac.
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Oh, wait. Yes they will.
So, basically, out of the 20% saturation of HDTV that's out there now, exactly zero of them will play HD movies. People who've already bought their HDTVs are the best possble market for a new DVD format. And yet for existing HDTVs, the only access option will be 480p analog -- no better than current DVDs.
And heaven knows that they need consumers badly -- they'll have $500+ players with only a few titles and an ongoing standards war between formats.
Good luck with getting consumer adoption of the new formats.
My guess is that these things will die on the vine unless they sell out the movie industry and offers up an analog adapter that allows you to watch 720 and 1080 video through component video connectors.
I have a collection of CD's which I have uploaded to my computer. I play these through my stereo system as a music jukebox. In the RIAA's mind I am not abiding by fair use. They forget the fact that I, unlike many others, have paid for every CD that I have. Still they label me as being unfair and would gladly label me a criminal if they could!
The same thing is happening with the movie studios. If I were to purchase a new format HD movie, I would be a criminal in their eyes for playing it on my computer. But remember, I am saying if I purchased it, not downloaded it or anything else, purchased it. I suppose I could download the HD video from some peer-to-peer system and not have any restrictions on how I play it (and save my money). I won't though, but maybe thats what they want...
I have been building up my computer system for some time to make it a big part of my home theater. It seems to be the logical step. I guess I won't be purchasing a Media Center PC as I thought I would as it would most likely restrict my access as well.
Why consider a paying consumer to be a criminal for getting a simple movie to play on your computer in the rewsolution it would be presented on a HD player? It definately won't stop the real criminals from pirating movies, but it might stop me from purchasing the new format.
Sadly though, I am one of the people that was really looking forward to HD and probably would have been an early adopter...
Anyway, my point is this, I'm stick of having to upgrade and upgrade my system just because they've decided that something needs to be changed, but their putting everyone else in debt because of it. Can they make a computer that can be upgraded just with software, and that will take all the hardware drivers, that are out there, and the hardware thats in the computer would work like the drivers that are installed? Seems to me that would be a lot cheaper on many people if someone created something like that. A computer that has to be upgraded after a motherboard is no good is a waist, we should be able to interchange the motherboard for the things that we want, just like legos...
Seriously, if you think I'm seriously going to go through all this trouble just to see a movie, forget it, I'll find another way to relax. Besides what is so low quality with DVDs today that I would want even higher definition? They just want us to pay for their initial lack of proper copy protection, the only way to get us to buy in is to make us think we need higher definition. Thanks for the push style marketing ploy but I'm not made of money, no Rolls sitting in my guarage. LOL
There's too much going on now with. Rumors also say that Sony's PS3 will force the consumer to go online and register their games...and disallow someone else from playing that same game on their box...no more letting a buddy borrow your game. If that works for their games, do you think DVDs/CDs are far behind?
For the forseeable future, I'm forgoing buying anything. I stick to my digital cable and get my movies at home via HBO/ShowTime. I'll buy my music online and take it and play it where ever I want. When the dusts clears (probably sometime in 2007) I'll decide what is best.