Comments on: Blockbuster and NCR Test Digital Download Kiosks

By: alans613

alans613 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:25:47 +0000

Also for those of you who don’t know exactly what an SD Card is, here’s the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sd_card

By: alans613

alans613 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:22:10 +0000

As was referred to earlier in this post, this is the EXACT SAME APPROACH that the Circuit City-based Divx used, what with the 48 hr. window for viewing movies. I remember the few that had Divx also complained about too many artifacts in the picture as well. Divx is one big reason that Circuit City failed and is now out of business. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:03:36 +0000

Easier just to dl it. Why bother trying to rip it when you can dl it.

and all you have to do with a micro sd is put it a sd adapter and stick it in the machine.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:06:11 +0000

This reminds me of the early days before ITunes was created. They talked about having a kiosk where you could purchase individual songs and have them burned on a CD while you waited. It never took off and neither will this. In addition to the fact that DRM is thankfully dying (and people hate it) the quality is going to suck. The quality of streaming movies is already questionable because of the compression. They’re going to try and cram a movie on the smallest SD card they can (probably 1-2GB) which means it will be even more compressed than a DVD. The only way to enforce the 48 hour viewing period is to force a “phone home” to start the timer. No thanks. Blockbuster should know better.

By: stavros

stavros — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:37 +0000

Just out of curiosity why do you Redbox put out the movie if it is not available now i hate it when I set up to rent and its not avail.anywhere. You should say avail soon or not avail. Thank you other then that i think your service is Great

By: hmmm

hmmm — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:28:27 +0000

downloads start at $1.99. SD price starts at?? no way I am taking my SD card in and out of my blackberry. can you imagine accidentally throwing away your contact list? instead of trying to come up with innovation, lets perfect the technology we have.

By: FalconFour

FalconFour — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:07:12 +0000

We’re all doomed…

By: rb

rb — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:58:11 +0000

NO!

By: UBM

UBM — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:44:09 +0000

Redbox is also testing Digital Downloads Now!!
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/redbox/redbox-testing-monthly-charge-with-digital-download-17544

By: The

The — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:36:49 +0000

Windows user #1: “Windows crashed in the middle of the movie and it took me more than 48 hours to reload windows and now I can’t watch my movie”.
Windows user #2: “Windows doesn’t load the movie, I don’t know why”.
Windows user #3: “Why doesn’t it work on win 95?”.
Windows user #4: “What does out of resources mean?”.
Windows user #5: “Where does this thing go?”.

Nothing but problems. Bad platform for a business to depend on.

These are the same people that take over your DVD player and stop you from fast forwarding past their stupid animated logos and it’s getting worse. Are you going to trust them with your computer? Spamware, spyware, nagware, un-removable ware, and you can bet they will popunder a IE window with their movie website and the studio website. They will be able to log your activity, like where you paused, where you FF, if you watched the previews and which ones you watched and all that. They know exactly who you are they have your CC info.

To do a good job at DRM you have to stick little secret files on the system and possibly access them in strange ways that could cause problems with non standard hardware like in laptops or more custom setups.

Just say NO to bastards.