I have long been skeptical of the potential for movie downloads but Amazon and Tivo have made a huge step forward in solving the major problems. I reported earlier that Tivo connects to a home wireless system which means that I can program Tivo from work. Yesterday, I rented a movie from Amazon. The movie downloaded automatically via my home computer to Tivo. Downloading still takes hours so it’s not on-demand service but I rented in the morning and watched the movie that night and I watched on television not some dinky computer screen. The picture quality was good, albeit not as high as DVD. Dramas, comedies and anything you would have watched on cable TV anyway are fine – save the action flicks for DVD. What impressed me most was that the system worked flawlessly the first time, without any computer hack work on my part.
Bravo Tivo, Bravo Amazon.
Alex, why no comments on the above post? Is it because you know its fatuous?
Hmmmm…I go to a big university. I can download a movie (either ~700mb or ~1400mb) in about 20-30 seconds through a decentralized file-sharing network where people share ~20tb of movies and music, and then put it on my 250gb external hard drive. I play it on my laptop, but hook up an s-video out to my TV. It (depending on file size) is nearly DVD quality, yet I can go from “I want this movie” to actually watching it in under a minute. Of course, the infrastructure costs were huge (fiber-optics network here at the uni that the file-sharing connection piggybacks on) and it is of course not following the system of property rights. However, if it were possible for students to simply pay the MPAA and RIAA a license fee for access/permission to join these networks, I suspect that many many would do it. It’s not the illegality, or even the cheapness (though this is good) of downloading that many youth enjoy, but discovering something new from a neighbor or peer – that the Barnes and Noble or Blockbuster around the corner doesn’t stock.
Yeah, are you not opening comments above because you know how bad you’d look? You’re not even trying to engage with the arguments of those you disagree with. It would be obvious to a three year old that the objections people are making to the recent loan climate are not simply that rates being offered are too low. Its really intellectually dishonest to argue in such a fashion.
This is brilliant, and the above sniping changes nothing. I don’t have to run napster. I don’t have to deal with watching on my laptop or transferring it somehow in a complicated fashion.
Their software interfaces *just worked*. how cool is that?
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