much as I love sticking it to "the Man." It's worth remembering that the studios never wanted DIVX. (Not that they aren't greedy rapacious clueless accountants for the most part. studios are run by the same knuckleheads who sold off 1/2 the rights to The Sixth Sense) They just don't want anything that they don't control - and they really really hated the idea of paying a third party for participation in their own product.
DVD encryption has more to do with the distribution havoc that ensues from staggered worldwide releasing. The DVD movies that go on sale this week might not have opened theatrically in Paris and Tokyo. And worldwide revenues might equal domestic revenues on certain kinds of product. It would make a good case study.
Bob seems to have deemphasized the ability to communicate from his website.
otherwise he would have gotten something like this:
It was a matter of Steve Jobs playing Huck Finn and trying to get the rest of us to paint his fence.
Tom Sawyer, not Huck Finn
hey! kids read this page and he should take some responsibility...
full text and miscellany online here: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/tomsawye/t omhompg.html
Page 26 Chapter II
SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate...
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much as I love sticking it to "the Man." It's worth remembering that the studios never wanted DIVX. (Not that they aren't greedy rapacious clueless accountants for the most part. studios are run by the same knuckleheads who sold off 1/2 the rights to The Sixth Sense) They just don't want anything that they don't control - and they really really hated the idea of paying a third party for participation in their own product.
DVD encryption has more to do with the distribution havoc that ensues from staggered worldwide releasing. The DVD movies that go on sale this week might not have opened theatrically in Paris and Tokyo. And worldwide revenues might equal domestic revenues on certain kinds of product. It would make a good case study.
otherwise he would have gotten something like this:
It was a matter of Steve Jobs playing Huck Finn and trying to get the rest of us to paint his fence.
Tom Sawyer, not Huck Finn
hey! kids read this page and he should take some responsibility...
full text and miscellany online here:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/tomsawye/
for what it's worth, NAB (National Association of Broadcasters --a big deal show for media creation and tool types)
http://www.nab.org/conventions/
runs from April 17 to the 22nd in LasVegas. They really need to have something to talk about, show, and ship by then.