Disney to Make Movies Available Online

musiholic writes "Disney has cut a deal with Movielink to make various Disney (and Disney subsidary) films available for 30-day paid downloads. Users can watch the film an unlimited amount of times before the movie expires. The movies requre Real Player or WMP."

Comments

a new hell

[gokubi]

Ah, a new hell for us parents:

"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

"No, 63% to go."

"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

"No, 62% to go."

"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

"No, 61% to go."

"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

"sigh"

Re:a new hell

[Tenebrious1]

{After waiting two hours for the movie to download}

OK kids! {hits play}
"Now available from Disney on DVD..."
{FastForward}
"Coming soon from Disney Home Theater..."
{FastForward}
"Now playing in theaters from the creators of..."
{FastForward}
"Walt Disney World presents..."
"Coming..."{FastForward}"From..."{FastForward}"Now available..."{FastForward}"Kids..."{FastForward}"M aw..."{FastForward}"Angels..."{FastForward}"After. .."{FastForward}
"Now the Feature Presentation... please wait while your movie downloads..."

99.99% to go...

Re:Good

[grennis]

I don't seen anyone hating disney

I guess you are new here?

Re:Screen captures?

[Hogwash McFly]

Guilt? :P

Re:Screen captures?

[jared_hanson]

I made a LEGO MindStorms robot that would hit "Print Screen" at exactly 29.97 frames per second to do just this. A small utility program I wrote then writes a bitmap of a screen out to a file on disc. A little splicing and encoding, and *ta-da*, a never expiring movie.

I nearly shot myself when I found out I could pipe the screen to my VCR through S-Video.

Re:Good

[David Hume]

Now if only the RIAA could follow this lead. I don't seen anyone hating disney - oh wait, they're not suing the youth of America.

I suspect it will not be enough for the majority on Slashdot. Why? Because the movies expire within 30 days, and many may find that to be unacceptable. I mean, why should Disney be allowed to offer its movies only on terms it deems to be acceptable?

While in the real world....

[darth_silliarse]

Dear Disney, I have two children. They are demanding. What the hell makes you think they are going to wait for a goddamn movie to download? My two year old son throws a fit if I can't put the Ice Age DVD in quick enough!

and so on until....

[Hogwash McFly]

"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

"No, 1% to go."

"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"

"Yes! You can watch Monsters Inc 2 now!"

"I DON'T WANT MONSTERS INC ANYMORE I WANNA PLAY PLAYSTATION"

*twitches, vein in forehead pops*

Re:Screen captures?

[Alton_Brown]

Um, you're not a parent are you? ;) Not being able to watch the movie after 30 days is a GOOD thing! Trust me! Added bonus - kids won't be tying up the home theater either! I think *I* know all the lines to Monster's Inc. now :)

Re:These are the same guys

[shamino0]

On the other hand you can bet your ass there will be DRM out the wazoo on these files.

And let me tell you, when you've got DRM coming out your wazoo, it doesn't do a thing for your complexion.

This is nothing new...

[EverDense]

This is nothing new...

How is this possibly news?

Disney and ShareReactor have partnered up for quite a few years now.

Re:Mmmm.. minimum requirements..

[chmilar]

So, how many security holes have you opened up?

Re:Good -- Well, Maybe just Okay.

[Nom du Keyboard]

oh wait, they're not suing the youth of America.

Of course not, they're too busy extending copyrights from here to eternity.

Re:Mmmm.. minimum requirements..

[Anonymous Coward]

The words "fuck that" come immediately to mind.

Re:They should release non-expiring versions

[Anonymous Coward]

why don't they just let consumers download non-expiring versions and charge a few extra bucks?

they do its called buy the thing on vhs or dvd!!!

doh!

Re:Screen captures?

[Adam9]

Wait.. you used LEGOs to do this? I think you need to put the 50mb movies on your cable/DSL server and then submit it as a story to Slashdot. That would be in the true Slashdot spirit.