More stupidity Microsoft and the Play ONCE DVD

http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE

Alpha

Alpha wrote:
> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>
>

Don't fret. It won't catch on. Ever since the original Divx, you'd
think companies would learn. But they're always trying something like
this and the consumer proves to be smarter than the company developing
this technology.

"Derek Janssen" <> wrote in message
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> Alpha wrote:
>
> >
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>
> (Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
> corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>

don't you mean the *cube* cube?

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:21:40 -0700, "M.B." <> wrote:

>> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
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>>
>
>Don't fret. It won't catch on. Ever since the original Divx, you'd
>think companies would learn. But they're always trying something like
>this and the consumer proves to be smarter than the company developing
>this technology.

That reminds me whatever happened to that program where you buy DVD
cheap but you got limited time before exposure to air makes the disc
unreadable? AFAIK the test market never went past being a test market
phase. And that old divx sank like Titanic.
--
When you hear the toilet flush, and hear the words "uh oh", it's already
too late. - by anonymous Mother in Austin, TX
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Alpha wrote:

> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE

(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)

Derek Janssen (still, better Bill than Disney)

"Derek Janssen" <> wrote in message
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> franky wrote:
>>>
>> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>>
>>>(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
>>>corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>>
>> don't you mean the *cube* cube?
>
> No, I mean:
> "What's your pleasure, sir?"
> "I want it all: Disposable movie sales...Guaranteed pay-per-view...Never
> having to worry about rental income again."
> "Many companies have lost their shirts over it, sir--Are you willing to
> give everything?"
> "I don't care--I want to be the disposable-disk company."
> "Then the disks are *yours*, sir."
> <exit>
> "...They always were."
>
> Derek Janssen (is it a bad thing to paraphrase this from memory?)
>

Well add to this:

--Law suits from CSS on media server hardware manufacturers....no serving
movies within the home.

--2008 as the end of DVD recording and Tivo for most material (broadcast
flags for copying become the norm).

--HD such as Blu Ray requiring internet connections.


They sure don't give up the idea that we only get to temporarily borrow the
viewing of a movie.

"Alpha" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "Derek Janssen" <> wrote in message
> news:Ug00f.3716$...
>> franky wrote:
>>>>
>>> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>>>
>>>>(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
>>>>corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>>>
>>> don't you mean the *cube* cube?
>>
>> No, I mean:
>> "What's your pleasure, sir?"
>> "I want it all: Disposable movie sales...Guaranteed pay-per-view...Never
>> having to worry about rental income again."
>> "Many companies have lost their shirts over it, sir--Are you willing to
>> give everything?"
>> "I don't care--I want to be the disposable-disk company."
>> "Then the disks are *yours*, sir."
>> <exit>
>> "...They always were."
>>
>> Derek Janssen (is it a bad thing to paraphrase this from memory?)
>>
>
> Well add to this:
>
> --Law suits from CSS on media server hardware manufacturers....no serving
> movies within the home.
>
> --2008 as the end of DVD recording and Tivo for most material (broadcast
> flags for copying become the norm).
>
> --HD such as Blu Ray requiring internet connections.
>
>
> They sure don't give up the idea that we only get to temporarily borrow
> the viewing of a movie.
>
>
>
>
>
>


PS

What will bite them is when they find that if they go this route, many may
only be willing to pay 75 cents to view a blockbuster, and 45 cents for
other movies. They are getting themselves into such a mess......

Alpha wrote on [Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:06:19 -0700]:
>
> "Derek Janssen" <> wrote in message
> news:Ug00f.3716$...
>> franky wrote:
>>>>
>>> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>>>
>>>>(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
>>>>corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>>>
>>> don't you mean the *cube* cube?
>>
>> No, I mean:
>> "What's your pleasure, sir?"
>> "I want it all: Disposable movie sales...Guaranteed pay-per-view...Never
>> having to worry about rental income again."
>> "Many companies have lost their shirts over it, sir--Are you willing to
>> give everything?"
>> "I don't care--I want to be the disposable-disk company."
>> "Then the disks are *yours*, sir."
>> <exit>
>> "...They always were."
>>
>> Derek Janssen (is it a bad thing to paraphrase this from memory?)
>>
>
> Well add to this:
>
> --Law suits from CSS on media server hardware manufacturers....no serving
> movies within the home.
>
> --2008 as the end of DVD recording and Tivo for most material (broadcast
> flags for copying become the norm).

Yes, because we all know that things like broadcast flags can't be
bypassed.

franky wrote:
>>
> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>
>>(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
>>corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>
> don't you mean the *cube* cube?

No, I mean:
"What's your pleasure, sir?"
"I want it all: Disposable movie sales...Guaranteed
pay-per-view...Never having to worry about rental income again."
"Many companies have lost their shirts over it, sir--Are you willing to
give everything?"
"I don't care--I want to be the disposable-disk company."
"Then the disks are *yours*, sir."
<exit>
"...They always were."

Derek Janssen (is it a bad thing to paraphrase this from memory?)

"Justin" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Alpha wrote on [Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:06:19 -0700]:
>>
>> "Derek Janssen" <> wrote in message
>> news:Ug00f.3716$...
>>> franky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Sto...E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>>>>
>>>>>(Geez, what, does this idea keep getting tossed from corporation to
>>>>>corporation like the Hellraiser cube?...)
>>>>
>>>> don't you mean the *cube* cube?
>>>
>>> No, I mean:
>>> "What's your pleasure, sir?"
>>> "I want it all: Disposable movie sales...Guaranteed
>>> pay-per-view...Never
>>> having to worry about rental income again."
>>> "Many companies have lost their shirts over it, sir--Are you willing to
>>> give everything?"
>>> "I don't care--I want to be the disposable-disk company."
>>> "Then the disks are *yours*, sir."
>>> <exit>
>>> "...They always were."
>>>
>>> Derek Janssen (is it a bad thing to paraphrase this from memory?)
>>>
>>
>> Well add to this:
>>
>> --Law suits from CSS on media server hardware manufacturers....no serving
>> movies within the home.
>>
>> --2008 as the end of DVD recording and Tivo for most material (broadcast
>> flags for copying become the norm).
>
> Yes, because we all know that things like broadcast flags can't be
> bypassed.

As I understand it from these groups, no one has bypassed such flags, nor
pay per view and other pay once protocals.