The frenh ISP club-internet is proposing movies since one year at least. For 3 or 5 euros, you get a 24-hours licence to watch a streaming video. So you can interrupt, go back, and replay, but you can't burn it on a CD or DVD. The image and sound quality is like a DivX- file. Also, you need windows and media player 9.
It's not only stupid, it's insulting for hardware makers. Most of them have operational margins about 5% or less, and cost control is their #1 priority. Thanks to its monopolistic situation, Microsoft makes about 80% of operational margin with Windows. And now they complain about "expensive" hardware ?
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The frenh ISP club-internet is proposing movies since one year at least. For 3 or 5 euros, you get a 24-hours licence to watch a streaming video. So you can interrupt, go back, and replay, but you can't burn it on a CD or DVD. The image and sound quality is like a DivX- file. Also, you need windows and media player 9.
It's not only stupid, it's insulting for hardware makers. Most of them have operational margins about 5% or less, and cost control is their #1 priority. Thanks to its monopolistic situation, Microsoft makes about 80% of operational margin with Windows. And now they complain about "expensive" hardware ?