11/19/2022 0 Comments 100 Feet movie download![]() ![]() The obvious solution would be to burn the downloaded film onto a DVD, but the major studios insist that such discs be encrypted. There’s also what industry insiders call the ‘last 100 feet’ problem, referring to the gap between the typical home’s computer and its living-room TV set. So there’s no way to carry all your movies around with you, nor to mix and match your favorite scenes from a variety of flicks into a customized video (not that you’d want to unlike a CD, a movie isn’t a collection of severable pieces of entertainment). There’s no legal way to put your entire movie collection onto a computer or portable device - DVDs are encrypted, so they can’t be ripped legally the way CDs can. The price for downloadable movies isn’t dramatically better than the price for a disc at Wal-Mart, in part because the studios don’t want to antagonize retailers who are selling so many DVDs. Thus, when people shelled out $300 for an iPod, they were buying something that they couldn’t get from CD players, turntables and boomboxes.Ĭontrast that with the situation in Hollywood, where the shift from DVDs to movie files is yielding few, if any, benefits for viewers. Those songs then fit seamlessly into the collection of tracks ripped from one’s CDs (or downloaded illegally from file-sharing networks). ![]() And stores like Apple’s made it possible for people to buy just the one or two songs they knew and liked from an artist in lieu of entire CDs. Software like iTunes allowed people to mix and match their favorite songs in customized playlists, rather than listening to music album by album. Song files made it possible to put one’s entire music collection onto a computer or carry it around in a pocket. One of the reasons downloadable music took off, I think, is that the shift from CDs to song files improved the user experience in a few notable ways. ![]() And Apple doesn’t provide a way to convert its downloads into DVDs, at least not yet. They’re too committed to bits encased in plastic. The main problem here is that Hollywood and movie fans don’t seem ready to make the same leap into the virtual world that the music industry made (albeit reluctantly). The reason goes beyond Steve Jobs’ inability to persuade studios other than Disney (where Jobs is a board member) to accept a significantly lower wholesale price for a download than they charge for a physical product. (Groan.) I’ll go out on a pretty stout limb today and predict that the combination of Apple’s iTV box (see Engadget’s pictures here) and its new downloadable film store won’t have a fraction of the impact on the movie-distribution business that the iPod and 99-cent downloadable songs had on the music industry. Oh look - a new gadget from Apple! It’s a. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. ![]()
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