Make your format that isn't DVD. If it's better than DVD, and offers more features, then it will catch on, and it'll beat DVD -- remember VHS versus Betamax? VHS was more popular. It won.
Yes, it won. But it won because it was more popular, not because it was better or offered more features. Technically speaking, Betamax was by far the better system. I think that's what would happen, when someone tried to introduce a new, Region-Code-Free digital video format. The big companies simply have the better marketing. DVD would win due to it's popularity...:-(
For example, 50 years or so from now when The Matrix enters the public domain, will Macrovision magically turn itself off? Will the DVD decss itself? Will it magically become region free?
Well... although the copyright may expire someday, a movie or any other material does not become public domain, when it does. I fact, The Matrix will always belong to the people who made it. You will not have to pay for licenses then (that is why older movies can be sold on cheap video tapes), but you will still have to ask, before you distribute it. So, the DVDs' proctection mechanisms will "make sense" even then (in fact they don't make sense at all, but you know what I mean...)
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Yes, it won. But it won because it was more popular, not because it was better or offered more features. Technically speaking, Betamax was by far the better system. I think that's what would happen, when someone tried to introduce a new, Region-Code-Free digital video format. The big companies simply have the better marketing. DVD would win due to it's popularity...
For example, 50 years or so from now when The Matrix enters the public domain, will Macrovision magically turn itself off? Will the DVD decss itself? Will it magically become region free?
Well... although the copyright may expire someday, a movie or any other material does not become public domain, when it does. I fact, The Matrix will always belong to the people who made it. You will not have to pay for licenses then (that is why older movies can be sold on cheap video tapes), but you will still have to ask, before you distribute it. So, the DVDs' proctection mechanisms will "make sense" even then (in fact they don't make sense at all, but you know what I mean...)