"LASERandDVDfan" <> wrote in message
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> >When will the movie companies finally get wise and
remember
> >the old axiom "give the customer what they want and they
> >will buy?"
>
> When the industry "themselves" feel confident that the
technology won't give
> customers what they feel is the capability to devalue
their product.
>
That's never going to happen. There will always be reverse
engineerng and pirates. They are just screwing themselves
out of income, while trying to prevent the inevitable.
> Of course, current anti-piracy measures only serve to
negatively affect the end
> user and are usually easily circumvented by pirates. But,
the suits in the
> industry don't think that way.
>
> >The technology has been in place for years, and now that
you
> >have PC's that are capable of HD video out to your TV,
and
> >digital audio to your HT (or a nice set of Klipsch 5.1 PC
> >speakers that put $1,000 HT's to shame); why not store
our
> >movies on our PC's?
>
> Why?
>
Because it is very convenient. When it comes to browsing
your movie collection, there is nothing better than sitting
on your couch and using your remote to do it.
> I don't want my computer to be the heart of my home
theatre rig. It's kind of
> like broadband telephones: if you lose your broadband
connection then your
> phone system goes out. If your HT computer crashes, no
movies!
>
> I'd rather have a system that isn't so closely tied as to
be dependent on a
> single component which is prone to outside attacks through
the broadband or
> phoneline connection. Of course, hackers and viruses may
not be as much of a
> problem on a PowerMac as it would be on a Windows machine,
but any computer can
> fail due to hardware failure such as a hard drive crash.
>
If someone was that paranoid about viruses, they could keep
their media PC off of the net. Also, any decent external
hard drive comes with software to automatically back up your
new files.
> Besides, as good as a great sound setup on a computer is,
that still won't
> compare to something like my STR-DA4ES or someone else's
pre-amp/outboard amp
> setup like a Lexicon/Krell pairing with Magnepans. (I'm
sure someone has such
> a setup here, although it may not be exact.)
>
Maybe not, but for my small home theater, a Klipsch 5.1 PC
speaker sounds fantastic. I'm sure I'm not the only
consumer who would agree.
> Also, I still want to play my CDs, cassettes, and LPs
through my system if I
> want to listen to music and not movie soundtracks. It's
kind of hard to do
> that with a computer setup while also trying to minimize
RF interaction with
> the sound, especially from a turntable as the output from
the pickup has to be
> preamplified to line level before it can be used, which
makes the output before
> the preamp vulnerable to interference from the computer.
Also, a computer
> CD-ROM drive, even with the D/A conversion handled by the
sound card or a
> multimedia application, may still fall short of a decent
dedicated CD player
> for just playing redbook audio, like my CDP-X229ES.
>
That's your preference. I'd like to be able to use my PC.
> >Why not sell DVD quality digital files
> >that we can legally store on our PC's?
>
> What if your computer crashes? Granted, there are
solutions to back up your
> system in case of a failure, but why go through the
additional trouble of
> backing up several gigs of movies in addition to the rest
of the hard disk? -
> Reinhart
>
Because my preference is different from yours. Not better
or worse. If the movie companies want to boost their
profits, they need to learn to make both of us happy.
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