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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: lml who wrote (8144)8/22/2000 5:02:49 PM
From: JayPC  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Hi lml,

I envision both providers offering VOD to the consumer, but only storable onto a medium whereby the content could not easily be transferrable to a removable, and thereby mobile, such as a DVD disc

I don't believe the entertainment industry has the capabilities to do this. The Content Scrambling System (CSS) on current DVDs was easily cracked. The DeCSS code is easily found.
lemuria.org

Can you imagine what would happen to this content once it makes its way from a DVD disc onto the Internet & available for download at a Napster-like site?

Yup! scour.com The new theatre releases like Gladiator and Hollow Man are filmed with a video cam and are quite annoying (you can can hear people rustling their licorice). The DVD copies are quite nice (I hear). You can trade DVD's online just like your MP3.

What distinguishes this vision from the failed Divx format is that all the studios will work together with the MSOs and DBS providers to support such features w/o cannibalizing existing revenues enjoyed via the BlockBuster type outlets.

Again, I'm not sure the studios and MSO have this in them, even if it was technologically advanced enough to survive the people who would love to destroy it.

Regards,
Jay
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