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Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Did you hear that? It sounded as if millions of hollywood executives sudd
by imgabe 17y ago
Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes.
Did you hear that? It sounded as if millions of hollywood executives suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
- brk 17y agoWhy? They still control the content and the licensing. I don't think they really care about the carrier media (DVD or packets), they care about extracting every last possible dime from the consumer for the content. If the content can be distributed AND billed effectively over this pipe, then it's fine. If the content can NOT be billed appropriately, it simply won't be licensed for this distribution channel.
- imgabe 17y agoI think their concern is that it will be distributed over this channel whether it's licensed for it or not.
- gbookman 17y agoThe sad thing is that hollywood execs are scared by news like this when they should be looking at it as an opportunity. The ability to download a full HD movie in <5 minutes opens up a treasure trove of revenue possibilities. It makes content delivery much more convenient and thus much more compelling for customers.
- grinich 17y agoI think purchasing will become much more of an impulse decision— much like what the App Store has done with software.
- brianobush 17y agoCompanies like sony have much capital tied up in movie theaters right? This would be a negative impact to those revenue generation mechanisms.
- tjogin 17y agoWas that what it was? Because I think it sounded a lot like scandinavia sighing that we've had this for a decade. (I'm sure other countries has too, the US really has backwater infrastructure.)
- nollidge 17y agoAdmittedly this probably has a lot to do with luddite technology policy, but surely it has more to do with the U.S. having 10 times the land mass and 15 times the population as Scandanavia [1]. [1] Stats from Wikipedia, summing Norway + Sweden + Denmark area and most recent population vs. United States.
- tjogin 17y agoActually, Norway and Sweden has a lower population density than the US has; we've got even more land mass per person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependenc... I think it has more to do with that we don't leave infrastructure development squarely in the hands of the market.
- nollidge 17y ago> Actually, Norway and Sweden has a lower population density I realize that. The multipliers I gave necessarily imply exactly that: 15x pop. and 10x area => U.S. has 1.5x the population density.
- swolchok 17y agoI would imagine that non-uniformity of population (i.e., cities are high-density, backwater rural states are not) is exacerbated by the greater land area of the U.S.
- tjogin 17y agoSweden and Norway has very non-uniformly populated areas as well. Don't blame your land mass, blame your telcos. They are screwing you over.
- TY 17y agoThis certainly does qualify as disturbance in the Force :-) On the other note, I do hope that Hollywood would embrace this as an opportunity not as a problem. However, if anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can expect big media to cling to the old ways of doing business for as long as they can...
- liquidben 17y agoThe repercussions of this on the next generation of gaming consoles would be very intriguing.
- s3graham 17y agoI thought the "download" part was funny too. 1g is as fast as many people's laptop hard drives anyway, so local storage is pretty much pointless.
- btilly 17y agoLocal storage still matters since bandwidth is not the only thing people care about: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html