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Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

kcmarshall writes "Mark Cuban's most recent blog post talks about what media will carry HD movies and content. The post makes it obvious that he's not a typical exec with a secretary who checks his email for him. He writes about ripping DVDs "that [he] had PURCHASED" to keychain drives and copying HD content to an external FireWire drive. He believes that the solution to movie piracy is bigger file formats."

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  1. Re:Broadband providers already stop piracy... by Stavr0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    They do make it easy to download the movies by giving out 3Mb/s, but they do hinder the sharing of the content by capping ups at 128Kb/s.

    Obviously you've never heard of bittorrent ...

  2. Re:bigger file formats... by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It takes a lot of guts to stand back and criticize someone from behind the protective "AC" identity guard.

    Come back when you grow a pair of balls and then maybe I'll care.

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    A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
  3. Re:bigger file formats... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Piracy is a victimless crime. Like punchin' someone in the dark.

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    I write in my journal
  4. Re:bigger file formats... by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not a parent, though.

    And using proper spelling (as in "braking" vs. "breaking") would go a lot further towards properly raising a child.

    And for about the billionth time to be pointed out on Slashdot -- copying a movie/song/book/etc. does not make you a THIEF!!! It makes you a copyright violator, which is very different. If I walked into a store and stole a DVD off the shelf, then I would be a thief.

    As it is, I pay to take the five us out to a movie at least once a month, usually twice or more if we go to the $1.00 theater. The last time we went to a full price theater (just a couple of weeks ago) it cost me $38.50 in ticket prices and another $28 at the concession stand. And don't forget to include the $1.50 to park in the mall garage.

    That is ridiculous in my opinion, especially since if wait as little as 3-4 months you could rent that same movie for $2.99 and all five of us can enjoy it for that one low price.

    Getting back to the main topic, as I pointed out, I DO BUY DVDs if the movie is any good. I DO PAY TO GO SEE MOVIES in the theater if I think they'll be any good, it's the crap like "Garfield The Movie" that I don't really feel like dropping $65+ on that I download and watch at home.

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    A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips