But there's already a boatload of material already paid for. I wouldn't mind being exposed to shows I haven't seen such as documentaries or older movies. These have made back their cost of production (in some cases decades ago).
Yet, somehow I can guarantee that the distribution cartel will charge much more than cost simply because they can.
By building for web standards compliance and offering to 'do a IE specific version if you get complaints / lose customers' most web houses cover their arse while keeping it simple. And the carrot? 'Its cheap as chips to do in W3 standards, but a bitch to do cross browser - so it'll costs lots more - it'll be cheaper in the long run to do one version, because you probably wont need the second version anyway!'
Oh, and don't confuse cross platform (Mac/Windows) with cross browser (IE vs standards compliance)
Release a "normal" DVD first, then release an "enhanced" or "Special edition" version months later.
Its very similar to the technique for VHS release. Sell the first release very high and then later release a consumer version priced $15-$30.
This is really targeted to the suckers and rental chains. They need to meet demand early on. Later, after the rental stores have run through their initial rental wave a cheaper version comes out for purchase.
Even if you play all non-RIAA music, you still have to pay for bandwidth, a minimum fee of $500/year and still keep track of those ridiculous tracking requirements. (i.e. tracking the UPC code)
That alone adds to your costs. If you somehow manage to break even you can bet that the fee will go up as you are then bumped into the "business class" range of fees.
I've done that. Listen primarily to a Japanese site ATM. I listened to TripleJ when in Oz last year. I'm not its demographic, but my god, what a refreshing change from US radio. If they streamed in mp3/4 I'd listen now, but its Real.
I have noticed some MP3 players find more foreign stations than others.
Yep and given the upcoming elections and the silence as an issue and you know the IP industries will have at least 2 more years to push threw their agenda before voting can be used.
Their power as a content distributor in addition to its power as a content source unfairly tilt the balance in their favor. No content = no sales to other content distributors like cable so it is not like they or the manufacturers have much clout. Heck, the digital transformation is a federal deadline so they can just wait it out. With legislation on their side and the Bush regime pushing broadband subsidies I expect a massive consolidation with each industry a small monopoly in its own right.
In today's world IP rights = property rights and that trumps political rights. Look at Powell at the FCC, CARP, DMCA, CBDPTA, etc. The writing's on the wall.
Until you get more subscription/donation sites going, you'll see advertising. It may not take the form of pop ups or banners, but you will see more interstials and text ads. Others will doubtless come along.
Baloney. Go do some research into HCI, ergonomics, and usability studies. It is NOT personal preferences if measurable differences in reaction time and productivity can be measured across different control groups.
A true critique of user interfaces uses testing methodologies involving actual users. I don't know if the Mozilla critics actually did any testing, but UI and usability testing is a science, not a matter of personal preferences.
Perhaps all hardware that makes these hand-made debut CDs will embed a watermark by default. That's what I'm trying to say when I say all hardware will require DRM if the IP industry gets their way.
While your arguments are valid, I believe the idea is to legislate requiring a single DRM soultion into the market place and requiring hardware to conform to it.
If this comes about then cost would be irrelevent since everybody would be required to sell and buy it. I'm sure the proponents thinking is that economies of scale will drive the cost down. Besides, they pass the cost to the customers anyway.
I expect eventually a micropayment scheme will emerge based on access rights.
It still doesn't address how "the little guy" will be able to certify her works will play in DRM systems.
While wireless Firwire is being worked on, Rendevous has it now, AFAIK.
The sad part is the possibilities will be limited by access rights. Imagine viewing a DVD in one room, going to the kitchen to make popcorn and having the TV there synch up to the one showing the DVD. Don't think Hollywood wants that.
From 1988 to 1995, Sematech received $815 million in federal funding. That was half of their total funding budget. Since 1996 Sematech claims they only secure private funding. Now New York is paying $200 million.
Perhaps with the tech slump they are back to seeking government funding. Since the perceived loss of US DRAM production was the reason for starting Sematech in the first place.
Whatever happens you can be sure none of that tax money will be seen by the taxpayers again.
"Whether you use a Macintosh or Windows-based PC, you can harness the power of QuickTime Pro for media authoring and play back of high-quality audio and video. All for just $29.99."
More Info: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/upgrade/
I don't know why they don't give Pro away on new desktops. You drop $1500 on a powermac and they want $30 more?
Considering MacWorld begins in less than 48 hours, why release now? I would have thought this would have been the big thing during the keynote along with Jaguar.
Are they trying to one-up the Corona announcement from MS?
Why do you believe this? Dell lives on razor thin margins and is eating Gateway alive in the market. IBM has left the home market. Compaq was swallowed by HP. In short, the X86 market is consolidating.
How is Dell going to allow Apple to make hardware, especially with Apple's historical margins? It would be worse than the Mac clones saga ever was and much faster to boot.
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But there's already a boatload of material already paid for. I wouldn't mind being exposed to shows I haven't seen such as documentaries or older movies. These have made back their cost of production (in some cases decades ago).
Yet, somehow I can guarantee that the distribution cartel will charge much more than cost simply because they can.
By building for web standards compliance and offering to 'do a IE specific version if you get complaints / lose customers' most web houses cover their arse while keeping it simple. And the carrot? 'Its cheap as chips to do in W3 standards, but a bitch to do cross browser - so it'll costs lots more - it'll be cheaper in the long run to do one version, because you probably wont need the second version anyway!'
Oh, and don't confuse cross platform (Mac/Windows) with cross browser (IE vs standards compliance)
Release a "normal" DVD first, then release an "enhanced" or "Special edition" version months later.
Its very similar to the technique for VHS release. Sell the first release very high and then later release a consumer version priced $15-$30.
This is really targeted to the suckers and rental chains. They need to meet demand early on. Later, after the rental stores have run through their initial rental wave a cheaper version comes out for purchase.
Quite simple actually.
Even if you play all non-RIAA music, you still have to pay for bandwidth, a minimum fee of $500/year and still keep track of those ridiculous tracking requirements. (i.e. tracking the UPC code)
That alone adds to your costs. If you somehow manage to break even you can bet that the fee will go up as you are then bumped into the "business class" range of fees.
I've done that. Listen primarily to a Japanese site ATM. I listened to TripleJ when in Oz last year. I'm not its demographic, but my god, what a refreshing change from US radio. If they streamed in mp3/4 I'd listen now, but its Real.
I have noticed some MP3 players find more foreign stations than others.
Yeah, but what if you rented a DVD for 10 viewings, had no due date, was cheap ($5.00), and when " used you returned to the video rental store.
Yep and given the upcoming elections and the silence as an issue and you know the IP industries will have at least 2 more years to push threw their agenda before voting can be used.
Their power as a content distributor in addition to its power as a content source unfairly tilt the balance in their favor. No content = no sales to other content distributors like cable so it is not like they or the manufacturers have much clout. Heck, the digital transformation is a federal deadline so they can just wait it out. With legislation on their side and the Bush regime pushing broadband subsidies I expect a massive consolidation with each industry a small monopoly in its own right.
In today's world IP rights = property rights and that trumps political rights. Look at Powell at the FCC, CARP, DMCA, CBDPTA, etc. The writing's on the wall.
Until you get more subscription/donation sites going, you'll see advertising. It may not take the form of pop ups or banners, but you will see more interstials and text ads. Others will doubtless come along.
Baloney. Go do some research into HCI, ergonomics, and usability studies. It is NOT personal preferences if measurable differences in reaction time and productivity can be measured across different control groups.
A true critique of user interfaces uses testing methodologies involving actual users. I don't know if the Mozilla critics actually did any testing, but UI and usability testing is a science, not a matter of personal preferences.
It can be measured scientifically.
Perhaps all hardware that makes these hand-made debut CDs will embed a watermark by default. That's what I'm trying to say when I say all hardware will require DRM if the IP industry gets their way.
While your arguments are valid, I believe the idea is to legislate requiring a single DRM soultion into the market place and requiring hardware to conform to it.
If this comes about then cost would be irrelevent since everybody would be required to sell and buy it. I'm sure the proponents thinking is that economies of scale will drive the cost down. Besides, they pass the cost to the customers anyway.
I expect eventually a micropayment scheme will emerge based on access rights.
It still doesn't address how "the little guy" will be able to certify her works will play in DRM systems.
That cetainly didn't work for Be, which in many ways was superior to OSX's current status and certainly better than Windows.
And if you did have OSX (not Darwin) running on PCs it wouldn't be for long as Apple goes bancrupt due to no hardware sales.
While wireless Firwire is being worked on, Rendevous has it now, AFAIK.
The sad part is the possibilities will be limited by access rights. Imagine viewing a DVD in one room, going to the kitchen to make popcorn and having the TV there synch up to the one showing the DVD. Don't think Hollywood wants that.
As I read the article its claims it uses IPv6 as part of its makeup. They had to go back to work in IPv4.
Does IPv6 have wireless recognition? I think that's the big deal.
But I'm not network protocol expert, so explain it to me as you wold a mac user.
From 1988 to 1995, Sematech received $815 million in federal funding. That was half of their total funding budget. Since 1996 Sematech claims they only secure private funding. Now New York is paying $200 million.
Perhaps with the tech slump they are back to seeking government funding. Since the perceived loss of US DRAM production was the reason for starting Sematech in the first place.
Whatever happens you can be sure none of that tax money will be seen by the taxpayers again.
It was an opened box and is now 2 years old.
Except no shipping Macs use USB 2.0. Maybe it will in the future, but not now.
So yeah, I was shy $100 for the powermac.
You know MPEG-2 support was promised in a QT6 FAQ. I wonder why it was quietly dropped.
interesting idea. that's one way to limit the server load.
"Whether you use a Macintosh or Windows-based PC, you can harness the power of QuickTime Pro for media authoring and play back of high-quality audio and video. All for just $29.99."
More Info: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/upgrade/
I don't know why they don't give Pro away on new desktops. You drop $1500 on a powermac and they want $30 more?
Considering MacWorld begins in less than 48 hours, why release now? I would have thought this would have been the big thing during the keynote along with Jaguar.
Are they trying to one-up the Corona announcement from MS?
"Apple maintains their hardware business"...
Why do you believe this? Dell lives on razor thin margins and is eating Gateway alive in the market. IBM has left the home market. Compaq was swallowed by HP. In short, the X86 market is consolidating.
How is Dell going to allow Apple to make hardware, especially with Apple's historical margins? It would be worse than the Mac clones saga ever was and much faster to boot.