http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:11:08 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/28/115134.php#comment-25779 The day someone rents a movie and the day he gets around to watching it can be pretty far apart. In fact, I have rented videos I never got around to watching. I think that is one reason the disposables will not fly. Two days is really short, especially if you consider people often get more than one at a time. The EZ-DVDer will just be replacing one form of pressure with another. ]]> 25779@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:11:08 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/28/115134.php#comment-25775 It's a stupid idea, as you said. Besides the fact that I wouldn't mind returning DVDs to the rental store (anyway, it works with my library books too...), I think throwing away a DVD just adds to the garbage we already drown in. Why would you wanna do that? ]]> 25775@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:35:23 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/28/115134.php#comment-25743 I think people aren't responding to disposable DVDs because they want to own movies, not because they don't want to return them. Movies, for whatever reason, and their physical manifestation (DVDs in packages,) seem to mean something to people (while music, for whatever reason, does not.) The number of quality movies that come out that I, for instance, need to own in most years is is close enough to zero that I probably don't even really count as a buyer of movies. Music, on the other hand, is always coming out with quality releases and somehow people write it off as meaningless and not worthy of paying for. This just boggles my mind. ]]> 25743@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:56:58 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/28/115134.php#comment-25739 I agree that downloadable movies will probably replace DVDs in the end. The problem with those services right now is still selection (rather minimal, comparatively speaking, although its getting better) and bandwidth issues. Not to mention display challenges in terms of getting the video to a TV (still easier to pop in a DVD and watch it on the big screen TV than it is to mess with video out and all the rest). But one day, I think it'll be the way it works. ]]> 25739@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:42:05 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/28/115134.php#comment-25674 I would sooner consider using a service like movielink or cinemanow which offer full downloads of DVD with 30 days to watch. Once you launch the file it expires in 24 hours, thus giving you the same type of environment, except there is no environmental concern. This option would be time-prohibitive for those on dialup connection, but for broadbanders, it might work. These services typically charge from $2-5 per movie. ]]> 25674@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:48:20 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/28/115134.php#comment-25659 I agree. $7 is insanely high. I would consider doing that for maybe $2. However, the whole disposable feature does disturb me a bit. And do they come with the features, too? Or is it just the film? ]]> 25659@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:57:18 EST