Mark Oates
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2004
- Messages
- 875
I have no doubt that eventually we'll all end up streaming or downloading movies, and paying through the nose for the DRM'ed privilege, because the Industry wants us to and shareholders are of course much more important than customers.
It'll take me a while to fall in with the herd. I've tried the Digital Copy thing (wasn't impressed) and I've tried downloading and streaming with similar results. It's not that the tech isn't up to scratch, I have a broadband connection of 50Mbps that's apparently going to be upgraded to 120Mbps.
It's just there's nothing I fancy watching.
I've already got most of the movies and tv shows I've loved, thanks to twelve years of disc collecting and freelancing as a reviewer. I can stick out a hand and retrieve whatever I want to watch, so things like downloading and streaming don't get a look in.
I'm at the point where I'm having the greatest difficulty justifying to myself upgrading my favourite movies from DVD to Blu-ray, and I'm much more receptive to doing that than buying new movies on DVD or Blu-ray as there's little interests me coming up. Most of my current pre-orders are catalogue titles upgrading from DVD to Blu, and only two or three titles are new ones.
The bread and butter of downloading and streaming for the Studios is bound to be whatever latest thing Tom Cruise is in, or what idiot superhero is flavour of the month, and I'm just not interested. So include me out.
It'll take me a while to fall in with the herd. I've tried the Digital Copy thing (wasn't impressed) and I've tried downloading and streaming with similar results. It's not that the tech isn't up to scratch, I have a broadband connection of 50Mbps that's apparently going to be upgraded to 120Mbps.
It's just there's nothing I fancy watching.
I've already got most of the movies and tv shows I've loved, thanks to twelve years of disc collecting and freelancing as a reviewer. I can stick out a hand and retrieve whatever I want to watch, so things like downloading and streaming don't get a look in.
I'm at the point where I'm having the greatest difficulty justifying to myself upgrading my favourite movies from DVD to Blu-ray, and I'm much more receptive to doing that than buying new movies on DVD or Blu-ray as there's little interests me coming up. Most of my current pre-orders are catalogue titles upgrading from DVD to Blu, and only two or three titles are new ones.
The bread and butter of downloading and streaming for the Studios is bound to be whatever latest thing Tom Cruise is in, or what idiot superhero is flavour of the month, and I'm just not interested. So include me out.