Miramax To Distribute Films Over Net?

cinchel wrote to us with a story talking about Miramax's latest move. They've partnered with Sightsound.com to allow pay-per-view downloading of 12 films. They haven't yet decided which films, but this is a cool step in the right direction for film distribution. Now if they can just work out some of those broadband issues *sigh*.

Comments

Re:Look what happened to the King book, though...

[jimhill]

Jesus H. Cheap-bastard Christ, I am sick unto fucking death of people suggesting that we have even more ads rammed down our throats to "defray" the cost of some inexpensive item that they don't want to pay for.

You people would have us live in a world of ebooks with embedded ads, streaming movies with embedded ads, streaming music with embedded ads, DVDs with unskippable ads, web-enabled phones with pushed ads. Enough, goddammit!

Let's put a stop to this bullshit idea of letting advertisers "help" promote something new before I have to worry about bringing my newborn son home from the hospital with "Brought to you by Mediconsult, Inc" tattooed on his ass.

Decline of American Civilization

[ucblockhead]

So, when combined with the previous /. story, this means that in the future, we will all have instant access to the latest Adam Sandler piece of dreck, but if I want to read an obscure 19th century book, I'll have to hop a plane to Washington.

The return of DIVX

[msaulters]

They haven't yet decided which films, but this is a cool step in the right direction for film distribution. Now if they can just work out some of those broadband issues *sigh*.

Am I wrong? This sounds to me like DIVX without the DVD, and requiring butt-loads of bandwidth. We cheer when DIVX dies, but we applaud THIS??? I've recently noted PPV prices on cable go up dramatically (from 3.95 to 6.95). Can we expect this to be any cheaper? How can we justify the bandwidth usage? I think I'm going to puke.