The movie theaters need to remind people of the compelling reason to go to the theater. For me it's the experience of being in a crowd of people who are all excited about the movie and the collective response to the movie.
If Star Wars Episode 27 was released on DVD and in the theater the same day, theaters would still sell out. Why? Because opening night is a great experience due to the other fans who are also excited about it.
What makes theaters bad is the experience after those first precious viewings when people show up that are less interested in the film. Why are they there if they are going to be text-messaging or making jokes with friends? Those are best done with a DVD viewing... MST3k acts at home.
But songs purchased from iTunes can be burned to CD, reimported in MP3, and used on any MP3 player. iTMS makes it more direct to work on iPod, but it can be done...
And iPod supports MP3 + Fairplay. If other music services want to work on iPod, they can allow conversion of their DRM into MP3 (or burning to CD), either would be enough to get it to the iPod.
"Not fair, I can't tie the customers hands with my WMA files and let them play on iPod!"
Joss has been consistently saying that he is obsessed with Firefly etc. and that would seem obvious due to all the work he did to keep it going, with a statement like "I will not rest until I find Firefly a home"
Here's the full text of Joss's own reply:
All right, now I have to jump in and set the record straight. EW is a fine rag, but they do take things out of context. Obviously when I said I had 'closure', what I meant was "I hate Serenity, I hated Firefly, I think my fans are stupid and Nathan Fillion smells like turnips." But EW's always got to put some weird negative spin on it. But so we're clear once and for all: If you read a quote saying "I'd love to do more in this 'verse with these actors in any medium" all I'm saying is that Nathan has a turnipy odor. It's not his fault, he doesn't eat a lot of them but everyone else in the cast noticed it and tht's not really something I'm prepared to deal with any more. And Jewel said outright she wouldn't do scenes with him except stuff like the SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER funeral scene which was outside in a high SPOILER wind. So if I do manage to find another incarnation for my beloved creation, it will have been totally against my will.
I hope that clears everything up. Oh, and when I say I want to do a Spike movie, it means I have a bunion on my toe.
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The movie theaters need to remind people of the compelling reason to go to the theater. For me it's the experience of being in a crowd of people who are all excited about the movie and the collective response to the movie.
If Star Wars Episode 27 was released on DVD and in the theater the same day, theaters would still sell out. Why? Because opening night is a great experience due to the other fans who are also excited about it.
What makes theaters bad is the experience after those first precious viewings when people show up that are less interested in the film. Why are they there if they are going to be text-messaging or making jokes with friends? Those are best done with a DVD viewing... MST3k acts at home.
But songs purchased from iTunes can be burned to CD, reimported in MP3, and used on any MP3 player. iTMS makes it more direct to work on iPod, but it can be done...
And iPod supports MP3 + Fairplay. If other music services want to work on iPod, they can allow conversion of their DRM into MP3 (or burning to CD), either would be enough to get it to the iPod.
"Not fair, I can't tie the customers hands with my WMA files and let them play on iPod!"
Here's the full text of Joss's own reply: