Actually, the feature that I'd like, which I understand Tivo has, is the ability to pause/rewind the broadcast in real time. Especially with a new baby in the house. I'd love to have this feature. I'm watching the Simpsons and the kid needs a diaper change. *pause* Change diaper. Come back. Unpause, watch, and skip commercials till I catch up with real time again.
I assume you *have* to have their program guide for the thing to work, which annoys me. Frankly, I'm quite capable of saying record channel 5 from 8pm to 8:30pm every Sunday night and notice myself if they move the show. Is there any way to be able to do this, or am I strapped to their little idiot box system?
The consumer market drives the decision of what format to stay with, *not* the MPAA/movie studios.
Usually I would agree with you. But with the way the powers that be have been acting about all this, I worry that they will cut over before the normal market forces would dictate. What better way to get the new technology which they have such tight control over a jump start that to stop making the old one.
The MPAA/movie studios are the ones who actually *decide* what format to release movies on. My worry is that they may make the decision from a more long term view than what consumers want now. The sooner they can force people into a format with all sort of nasty content controls on them, the sooner they can get people used to them, which sounds like the ultimate goal. Why spend all the money on a court battle over a feature that you don't have any long term plans for?
That's all I plan to say on this thread. You do make good points, but it's not the normal case I'm concerned with here, it's the extreme one
You are missing my point. Sure that's true now. But what happens when the powers that be decide they don't want it to be true. A VCR is only useful to view movies if they release them on VHS. They can stop doing that anytime they see fit.
I'm not talking about recording stuff off the air, I'm talking about buying movies to watch at home.
The "real" purpose is to make sure that anyone who wants to play a DVD has to pay the DVDCCA for a license. It's all about the money.
This statement gave me a nasty thought. Granted VHS will most likely die one day anyway of natural causes due to superior technology. But with the fact that currently you have to pay to get a licence to make a DVD player, what happens when the movie companies just stop making VHS. Not because people don't want them, but because they can get more money out of a DVD. They make money twice. Once for the license on the player, then once again on the DVD media itself. It gives me a funny feeling that we are being set up here.
As I understand it, copy protection is a bad phrase to use here also. If I copy what's on the DVD to another DVD, what's to stop it from working in any DVD player that can decode the CSS stuff. It seems like the only real use of CSS is to make sure people in Japan can't play the movie if they buy it in the Sates, or some such nonsense.
I've seen it on Comedy Central late Sunday nights. It's part of their "animation block" they run then. (With "The Critic" another show I loved that got canceled. I've got to stop watching shows I like, it dooms them.)
"You can't blow up the Earth, that's where I keep all my stuff!"
Now that that's out of the way. I'm not sure I think this is a good idea or not. I've heard about this before and I was afraid then as well. I feel like "The Tick" will be very hard to do well in live action. I think animation is the right format for the show and really wish Fox would take the money to start that back up instead.
But what do I know, I think Crusade shouldn't have been canceled and X-Files should have ended long ago.
Once again Slashdot takes an opportunity to bash AOL without getting the whole story. When you install AOL 5.0, it asks if you want to make it the default resource for web,etc. It's not just done without your knowledge. I,for one, am happy to be able to set it up that way. I'm tired of having a seperate copy of Netscape or IE pop up everytime something comes up that uses the default browser instead of using the one I have open. Yes, I use AOL and I like it. Yes, I am a geek. The one doesn't prevent the other, Slashdot editors' opinions notwithstanding.
>>I'm not going to drive 2 hours to buy a game I >>can't play without spending a few more hours in >>long distance charges to download the version I >>can play. > >-- Unless you're using a 300baud modem, or your >mommy keeps picking up the phone during your >download to remind you to do your Algebra I >homework, 5MB is _easily_ less than an hour; >certainly not 'a few more hours.'
So what? The point still stands. Are you saying that since it's only 30 minutes of long distance he has to pay for, it's ok?
The position being taken is that the LINUX users really don't matter, they can just download what amounts to a patch and to hell with them. I don't know about you, but that pisses me off.
They thing to do is
a) Don't buy the game. b) Write to them so they know they lost a sale and why.
As someone else noted, a) alone won't do it, they'll never notice we are missing. b) will let them know the revenue they lost so that they'll think twice about it next time.
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Actually, the feature that I'd like, which I understand Tivo has, is the ability to pause/rewind the broadcast in real time. Especially with a new baby in the house. I'd love to have this feature. I'm watching the Simpsons and the kid needs a diaper change. *pause* Change diaper. Come back. Unpause, watch, and skip commercials till I catch up with real time again.
I assume you *have* to have their program guide for the thing to work, which annoys me. Frankly, I'm quite capable of saying record channel 5 from 8pm to 8:30pm every Sunday night and notice myself if they move the show. Is there any way to be able to do this, or am I strapped to their little idiot box system?
The consumer market drives the decision of what format to stay with, *not* the MPAA/movie studios.
Usually I would agree with you. But with the way the powers that be have been acting about all this, I worry that they will cut over before the normal market forces would dictate. What better way to get the new technology which they have such tight control over a jump start that to stop making the old one.
The MPAA/movie studios are the ones who actually *decide* what format to release movies on. My worry is that they may make the decision from a more long term view than what consumers want now. The sooner they can force people into a format with all sort of nasty content controls on them, the sooner they can get people used to them, which sounds like the ultimate goal. Why spend all the money on a court battle over a feature that you don't have any long term plans for?
That's all I plan to say on this thread. You do make good points, but it's not the normal case I'm concerned with here, it's the extreme one
I'm not talking about recording stuff off the air, I'm talking about buying movies to watch at home.
The "real" purpose is to make sure that anyone who wants to play a DVD has to pay the DVDCCA for a license. It's all about the money.
This statement gave me a nasty thought. Granted VHS will most likely die one day anyway of natural causes due to superior technology. But with the fact that currently you have to pay to get a licence to make a DVD player, what happens when the movie companies just stop making VHS. Not because people don't want them, but because they can get more money out of a DVD. They make money twice. Once for the license on the player, then once again on the DVD media itself. It gives me a funny feeling that we are being set up here.
As I understand it, copy protection is a bad phrase to use here also. If I copy what's on the DVD to another DVD, what's to stop it from working in any DVD player that can decode the CSS stuff. It seems like the only real use of CSS is to make sure people in Japan can't play the movie if they buy it in the Sates, or some such nonsense.
Ironically, watching DS9 is the best way to win at Brainball.
I've seen it on Comedy Central late Sunday nights. It's part of their "animation block" they run then. (With "The Critic" another show I loved that got canceled. I've got to stop watching shows I like, it dooms them.)
Now that that's out of the way. I'm not sure I think this is a good idea or not. I've heard about this before and I was afraid then as well. I feel like "The Tick" will be very hard to do well in live action. I think animation is the right format for the show and really wish Fox would take the money to start that back up instead.
But what do I know, I think Crusade shouldn't have been canceled and X-Files should have ended long ago.
Once again Slashdot takes an opportunity to bash AOL without getting the whole story. When you install AOL 5.0, it asks if you want to make it the default resource for web,etc. It's not just done without your knowledge. I,for one, am happy to be able to set it up that way. I'm tired of having a seperate copy of Netscape or IE pop up everytime something comes up that uses the default browser instead of using the one I have open. Yes, I use AOL and I like it. Yes, I am a geek. The one doesn't prevent the other, Slashdot editors' opinions notwithstanding.
>>can't play without spending a few more hours in
>>long distance charges to download the version I
>>can play.
>
>-- Unless you're using a 300baud modem, or your
>mommy keeps picking up the phone during your
>download to remind you to do your Algebra I
>homework, 5MB is _easily_ less than an hour;
>certainly not 'a few more hours.'
So what? The point still stands. Are you saying that since it's only 30 minutes of long distance he has to pay for, it's ok?
The position being taken is that the LINUX users really don't matter, they can just download what amounts to a patch and to hell with them. I don't know about you, but that pisses me off.
They thing to do is
a) Don't buy the game.
b) Write to them so they know they lost a sale and why.
As someone else noted, a) alone won't do it, they'll never notice we are missing. b) will let them know the revenue they lost so that they'll think twice about it next time.
--Ty
That's the one I've been waiting for. (For years now)
http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/gk3/