After all the definition of movies at the home will be limited by the monitors.

And just like the ipod/mp3 player/computer sound systems are more used than the expensive hi fi systems (I have not used mine in years) will it not be true that the future is in small LCD motitors attached to portable computers?

Perhaps HF DVD will be a looser, like the superior lasedisk that sounded better, if you had a $20,000 listening studio, but which no one needed.

And, is it not better to have five standard definition movies on a high capacity DVD than a single high definition movie? Perhaps movies will evolve like songs, that started out as a single song on a tube, then two songs on a two side disk and then 12 songs on a disk.

No matter what, the prospects are bad for physical media type distribution. Out the door in a few years in technologically advanced countries. In other countries, piracy will serve the market, if movie prices are not reduced to reasonable levels.

Surely Hollywood does not want me.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

As far as rental DVDs go, doesn’t the store renting them have to buy them from H’wood? Don’t they get something from that purchase?

I would think the money they get from downloaded Movies on Demand is almost pure profit as there is no packaging to create with a graphics laden cover, no disk to manufacture (with more graphics on it), no shipping costs, etc.

Whatever the case, as is the usual situation with Hollywood accounting, it just doesn’t add up.