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Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman
farmerbuzz writes "USAToday has an interview with Dan Glickman (Jack Valenti's replacement as the CEO of the MPAA) where he announces that the MPAA will begin suing movie downloaders. An interesting point brought up in the interview: 'At the time the RIAA announced its lawsuits, it said music sales had fallen 25% over a three-year period. The MPAA is in a much different situation. Box office receipts aren't down at all -- 2003's figures were $9.5 billion, the second biggest in history.'"
Garfield MAKES you wait for the commercials to complete before unlocking the DVD player so you can watch the movie. That means it takes over 20 minutes before I can begin to watch the show. I purchased it for my kids to watch. They like the commercials, I sure don't.
I've started to switch back to VHS tapes. Oh sure, I can put the DVD in and wait until it says ROOT to flip from TV to DVD, but come on! I paid for the DVD, I don't want to be forced to watch these commercials. Let me FF through them!
Keep doing this MPAA, and I'll quit buying your movies. I have bought only 1 CD in the last many years due to RIAA's actions. No, I don't pirate them. I just don't have them. I have XM Radio which is commercial free (mostly) and pay $9.95 a month for that. My CD purchases have been replaced by XM Radio.
Get wise MPAA, or my DVD purchases will go elsewhere as well.
BTW, are these the same people who are forcing 30 minutes of commercials before movies?
Just a note to that, its the theaters themselves that add the commercials beforehand. The large theaters by me all have commercials, but if I go to one of the smaller(ie. Non-chain) theaters, I'm am greated by a blank screen and a radio playing right up until the previews start.
well it's not free, but that and NetFlix are great alternatives to dl'ing massive files with questionable quality.
I know I'm going to be modded up on this
September 2004:
Sales of home videos on DVD and VHS crossed the $1-billion mark in July, setting a record for the month, Video Store magazine reported Thursday. The spending figure of $1.01 billion was 6.5 percent above last July's. Ninety-three percent of the figure was spent on DVD purchases compared with 86 percent in July 2003 and 72 percent in July 2002. The top-selling DVD for the month was Cold Mountain, the Miramax-produced film, distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Home Video. Unit sales were estimated at 2.19 million.
Well, until then:
m es/action/beyond_castle_wolfenstien.dsk.gz
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/ga
BlockBuster rents no porn
Check out GreenCine. $19.99 a month, and they carry mainstream, indie, anime, and porn! Everything you need, nothing you don't.
THe distinction you are making is only a temporary one, and they used to say the same thing about music.
Most DVD rips are now full quality. Yes, some people transcode in order to fit the movie on a DVDR... others will simply use two DVDr's. Now, with dual-layer DVDr, this is not necessary either.
Further, some poeple just leave them on hard disk, and play from there.
Good DVD rips are identical to the original DVD. Good transcoded DVD rips are very close to the original DVD (just as good mp3 rips are very close to the original cd)
Soon, it won't matter.