Net to DVD to TV
p2p news / p2pnet: Try-before-you-Buy has become de rigueur for movie fans with Net accounts. Millions of people around the world now routinely use p2p downloads to by-pass Hollywood hype, with the studios’ MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) victimizing torrent sites said to be facilitating the practice.
But as of today, Sony, Disney, Universal, MGM and Lions Gate will try to defeat it by “letting” people create DVDs of movies in their homes using a CinemaNow “service” which’ll “allow” movie downloads to be seen on any TV hooked up to a DVD player, says The New York Times.
Initially, CinemaNow will try to rip consumes off through 100 old movies including ‘Scent of a Woman,’ ‘Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle’ and ‘Barbershop’ going for $9 to $15, the same price as the PC downloads it’s been trying, and failing, to sell online.
The difference is: the TV versions will also have so-called bonus material, “like filmmakers’ commentary and extra scenes,” says the story.
But as with the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s “tentative steps into online distribution a few years ago,” the major studios aren’t, “embracing it with both arms yet,” the Los Angeles Times has Jupiter Research’s David Card saying.
And, “Because CinemaNow’s service employs relatively new anti-piracy technology, the initial batch of titles were described by Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff as what’s left at the video store, ‘when you arrive too late and the shelves are picked clean’.”
Also See:
The New York Times – Downloading service allows copying films on video discs, July 19, 2006
Los Angeles Times – Downloaded movies cross bridge, Gonzales Says, July 19, 2006
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