LA Times says
Wal-Mart has unveiled an exclusive arrangement with five of Hollywood's top studios to convert DVD collections into digital copies.
Beginning April 16, consumers will be able to take their DVDs to about 3,500 Wal-Mart stores and have a digital copy stored in the cloud -- a storage system offering access from a broad array of Internet-connected devices -- for $2 each. Customers will have the option to upgrade standard DVDs to high-definition online copies for $5 each.
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This still comes with the punishment of buying it legally anyways. You buy something digital at the high price, and what do you get in return? A company sitting there making sure its "legit," The inability to transfer it to any device you want due to stupid "security," and strict rules about what you can and can't do with it.
What do you get if you pirate or rip it yourself using the programs Hollywood sues on a daily basis? Freedom to do whatever the hell you want.
1. as stupid as it may sound I like sitting back and looking at my library. Rows upon rows of movies all lined up in alphabetical order on their shelves
2. I live in the country and pay an insane amount of $$$ for broadband that is still heavily capped. (3MB +80GB download cap = $98)
3. I like making my own rips when necessary for portable use. I don't have BluRay on every TV in my house and I sure as hell won't be changing that anytime soon so I have my own library in a digital format for those rooms hosted on my media server and can access the data anytime I want.
Plus one main concern is sharing with people. Go to a friends, grab a few movies and go. Not an entire bluray player or hard drive that may or may not actually work and be "allowed" to work with whatever they have....This is where money comes before the consumer. They don't want you to "share" period. Someone else wants to watch the movie at all? They need to pay....and its a horrible business model.
2. I currently have unlimited data usage with my provider but lets be realistic... For how long? Once everything becomes digital and on "the cloud" ISP's will implement the cap and charge us out the ass just for access to said content.
A. I will NEVER, ever, everrrr purchase any form of media without receiving something tangible to OWN and hold in my hand. We should not have to rely on an active internet connection just to watch a movie or play a game that we already purchased. Humans as a race are putting WAY too much responsibility in the hands of computers/ internet/ technology. This is making us weaker as a whole...
yourself. What else is new.
Hmm Xvid/Divx/mp4/h.264 VS the cloud
Having to put up with needing a network conection VS
stuffing as many video files as possible into memory.
I won't pay for something I could do myself
and somehow put it on a iphone or whatever portable devices i can bring with me for my workout and cardio or walking outside at night would make ingore time very easly lol