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To: geoffrey Wren who wrote (9841)12/19/2000 8:09:42 PM
From: ftth  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Hi Geoffrey, you may be right that people would go for a pre-ordered movie at a discount to on-demand movies. Is your feeling that such a service would be more attractive to most people, compared to VoD or nVoD? I suppose another thing they could do is have a feature movie each day, at an even further discount, that is downloaded the night before as a broadcast to the node (if you elect it), to "save" even more bandwidth.

I suspect we are a ways away from a log-jam w/r/t VoD, since it is just starting to roll out, but it may be that in less than a year some systems will start to feel the pain. "Sorry, no more VoD slots are available...try again some other time" the message would read.

On the digital video recorder, are you saying that subscribers can record digital pay-per-view movies? And keep a separate permanant copy that can be viewed as many times as they wish? That would seem odd to me, considering hollywood won't even allow their precious content from a DVD to be recorded via the composite video out to a VCR in analog form (and the digital output cannot be recorded either).

I'm not sure I agree it lessens the perceived need for DVD, since you don't have anywhere close to the number of titles available via VoD services today, and I don't see how it can allow a user to have a library of movies the way DVD (or even VCR tapes) can. It would seem those would be important considerations since practically everyone with a VCR also has a library of favorite movies. Would you agree with that? If you wanted an archive library of say 20 movies with a TIVO box, what is the method of archival/external storage?
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