Paramount $1 movie deal
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies:- While Hollywood does it best to shut down any and all P2P file sharing portals, some of the studios appear to be doing their very best to ensure there’s a cheap, and readily available, way of obtaining ‘product’.
Here is an easy (theoritical) tutorial on how to get your movies for $1, said surfer in July, going on, Sorry this tutorial is only good where you can actually rent a DVD for $1, and, Go to a McDonalds that has a DVD rental kiosk out front.
He was talking about Redbox.
Now, “Movie studio Paramount Pictures is following the lead of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Sony Corp. by agreeing to supply films to $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company Redbox,” says the Associated Press, going on »»»
Paramount Home Entertainment Inc. and Redbox, a subsidiary of Bellevue, Wash.-based Coinstar Inc., said Tuesday they have begun a trial licensing program through which Redbox will be able to stock its kiosks with Paramount Pictures DVDs on the day they are released for retail sale and rental, through the end of the year.
Los Angeles-based Paramount, which is owned by Viacom Inc., will get detailed DVD rental information from Redbox, which the studio will use to determine the worth of the program. Paramount will be able to extend the deal through 2014, with an option to opt out after two years.
Redbox says it’ll destroy any Paramount DVDs it removes from its rental kiosks. But that won’t achieve much because, as surfer’s post continues, once you’ ve located a McDonalds that has a DVD rental kiosk out front »»»
- Pick the movies you want to rent, remember, you can only have them for a day for the $1, so only get as many as you think you can rip at a time. In my case I can do 20-30. (Once ripped, you can setup a queue in Handbrake to compress them overnight.)
- Download and install MacTheRipper. Or if on a PC go here and choose the program of your choice.
- Rip the DVD according to the instructions for the software you chose. You should end up with a AUDIO_TS/VIDEO_TS folders, thats the raw DVD footage with separation of tracks. (I always go for the Main Feature Extration to eliminate the bullshit.)
- Download Handbrake and install. There is a version for Mac or PC.
- Using Handbrake just drag the VIDEO_TS folder onto the application and tell it go GO. (With experience, you can play with the settings for smaller files with same high quality. The important part is Bitrate, be sure and select 2000+)
- Return the $1 rented DVD from whence you got it.
Voilà ! You have only paid $1, as should be the REAL price, been able to watch the movies WITHOUT the un-skippable commercials and the offending accusations of being a criminal (once you rip and compress, you are left with a digital copy of the MOVIE, and not all the bullshit that comes on the DVD as `extras`), and you get to keep a copy for prosperity, never having to rent that particular movie again.
Then Redbox can destroy it.
No need to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
surfer – Rent, Rip, Return (Tutorial), July 23, 2009
Redbox – Redbox, making rental `convenient`. Again., July 28, 2009
Associated Press – Paramount in trial deal to supply DVDs to Redbox, August 25, 2009
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August 26th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Ah, the three Rs. Rent, Rip, Return. Should be taught in every school.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
this is the best method to get dvd’s cheap.
even if you pay 5 bucks for the rental it is still way better.
also, you can be proud you gave the kid in the rental store a job.
if you feel a burning itch telling you that you just gave the studio’s money just remember that they only got around 1 buck instead of 20
August 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I do this with a blockbuster all access pass- ~25$ month two out at a time- <.50c movies if I go every day. Fun hobby, keeps me busy. I also have a satellite subscription with movie channels and tivo- easies my conscience- since most anything I rip would have come over the sat at one point or another and tivo could have recorded it… Tivo sucks though… LinuxMCE kicks ass for working with a big media collection- it gets movie attributes from amazon automatically while riping dvd’s, and allows very easy searching and filtered browsing for any attribute. Handbrake saves a ton of HD space w/o much quality loss.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Why is this a “trial” licensing program? Hasn’t Redbox been doing this for years already?
August 30th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
” Why is this a âtrialâ licensing program? Hasnât Redbox been doing this for years already? ”
I thought so.
First sale doctrine, at least in the US, is what has allowed video rental services to exist.
Apparently the labels have somehow nullified that, and now ‘agreements’ must be made.