Jaiman Tuckuh said:Ya know... the movie studios seem to be a lot less vindictive and vengeful than the music studios. Perhaps movie studios don't feel as threatened, because movies take a lot more time to download. HD, in particular, and there's the storage & playback issues. Perhaps also, because you can rent movies, and tv broadcasters play everything, while radio typically only plays certain cuts of music... Also, people buy as much music as they can afford. But they buy as many dvds as they have space for...
well, with broadband access getting more common, FIOS, etc... it doesn't take that long
to get a popular movie for me (a few hours by bittorrent, and less than hour with rapidshare
links)....for the FULL DVD ... maybe longer for dual layer .....
HD rips take maybe a day or 2 [ok, i have 20M down] for the 9 gig WMV/MKV .... and for
the HD DVD/BLU RAY rips maybe 4-6 days, if its seeded well .... so i don't think that for me,
time is not a deterrant...
storage space is not a issue either, i can get a 500 Gig drive for less than US$100 now,
and its getting cheaper, i'm sure a Terabyte drive will cost that much by the end of the
year (hopefully sooner), that means i can fit 20 full hd dvd/bluray rips on 500 gigs,
and double that on 1 terabyte... of course DVD's are dirt cheap too, going for about
50 per $20 on sale etc...so that's not a problem either......
i dont' buy many dvd's obviously, when you can get them for free, but i've stopped
when there is an HD version, i always get that now.......... and HD DVD's are dead,
but dirt cheap also, so i only buy those...if i need a bluray version, i just download that
instead of buying yet another player, and format........ i'm sure more people will
do it also in the future...
One-upmanship is a game of increments.
Lucasfilm lost the second any version of star wars SE/and the prequels showed up
on HD, i don't know what came first, the german versions, wookiegroomer, etc...
but as soon as those were free..... the game was over ..... maybe that's why people
don't think that the war is already over, before it has even started?
who's going to buy Star Wars SE on blu-ray, when there are at least 5 or 6 versions
already out there, available completely for for free, i think i have them all, 720p
versions, 1080p versions, mkv format, wmv format, .TS format etc, etc.
there is no point in releasing Star Wars SE on bluray
Lucas defeated the community's laserdisc rips's video with the crappiest source in his vaults. And one can easily imagine that he howled with laughter, as he pulled it out of the vault. Then, perhaps to to rub it in, he gave it an even-worse-mastering than his other OT DVDs (not that his PT dvds were mastered all that well).
So, anyway, supposing, there's an SD version, swimming around freely... and they know that, somewhere, out there, lurks an HD version (that would be easy for them to one-up, of course). Will it surface? When? Should they transfer a 16mm? A 35mm print? An interneg? A sep neg? A techicolor? Should they pay for the transfer now? Heheh, let 'em sweat... :-}
once again, why should they bother ? we've got yet another HD version of star wars
ready to be released shortly with color correction and fixes .............. and i'm sure its
just a matter of time, before more people work on de-SE ing these HD versions, just
like the plethora of fanedits that exist already for the OT now, there will be just as
many edits of the HD versions, and we will never need to go back to Lucasfilm ..
the cat is already out of the bag, and has been for quite some time now....
[i'm deliberately not talking about the 35mm transfer project for other reasons
obviously]..
later
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