Buying DVD of movie you've just seen at the theater (1 Viewer)

[Jan Strnad]

Imagine being able to pick up a DVD of a movie you've just seen and loved at the movie theater on your way out. Imagine being able to pre-order a DVD to ship the day the movie opens. Imagine the owner of a digital movie theater who isn't worried about piracy.

All of this may come to pass thanks to Mark Cuban's purchase of Landmark Theaters. Here's a link to the article in Wired news: Cuban buys art house chain.

A quote from the article:

Are you concerned about piracy in movie theaters?
Not one bit. If we can't compete with some guy sneaking a camera into the theater, or a blurry, encoded, postage stamp-sized file, then please - just shoot us.

Makes me wonder if the purchaser of Anchor Bay could be Cuban filling in some holes in his media empire.

Jan

 

[Tom_Bechet]

Imagine being able to pick up a DVD of a movie you've just seen and loved at the movie theater on your way out. Imagine being able to pre-order a DVD to ship the day the movie opens

you can, very easy. come and live in the UK or Europe in general. In France Finding Nemo started screening this week in the cinemas. and in the UK it started when the first preorders for FN were shipped.
we live in a world you can only dream of.
same goes for SWAT that one arrives in cinemas here in a week and even later throughout he rest of europe and 3 weeks later the DVD can be bought

 

[Ed St. Clair]

Cuban is King!
I know this guy is 'just' trying to make money.
Who isn't?
But man, everything this guy does, makes the audio/video experience sooooooooo much better.
Has this guy, ever missed?
Still have those fantastic HD images in my head from the Winter Games!
Maybe, now it will be 'safe' to go too the movies again!

 

[Mark Kalzer]

Well with Lord of the Rings Two Towers Extended I feel I've bought a movie on DVD BEFORE I see it in theatres! Love my Trilogy Tuesday ticket!

 

[Lance Nichols]

I posted the same thing earlier this morning in the after hours section. I just love that quote. This guy GETS IT!