Microsoft and Paramount team up for digital downloads

Man these movie services are multiplying like rabbits!

They sure are,it should be interesting to see how blue-ray disk movies fair in the next couple of comming years with this downloadble competition,then again i spose sony will provide content too ?

dam it dble post D'oh

Well we all know how this is the future of movies. I think if MS lowered prices (points) they could really be onto a winner.

Yes Sony announced back at CES that they would put their movies on this service as well. Sony and Microsoft are videogame console rivals but every corporation loves money.

This is the part that gets me:
You have two weeks to watch the content or 24 hours to finish it after you've begun watching.


Sorry but I'd rather buy an actual physical media that I can take anywhere and watch anytime that I feel like it. This works for some people I guess.

This is why Microsoft backed HD DVD, or at least why they haven't shoved tons of money towards it. I am not sure of the resolution of the HD movies but if you convert MS points to dollars its about 80 points per $1, or $1.25 per 100 points (according to Wikipedia's MS points entry). So that means Transformers in HD is only $4.75 compared to $19.95 for it on HD DVD.

However it is more like a rental service, in price, so all we need now all that is needed (Slysoft?) is a way to remove the time limitations and we get real cheap HD content. :P

I think they should have a way to purchase (permanently) the movies for ~$10-15, depending on the movie, if they did that I would purchase at least a few movies.

Peace

Great. Just means more HD movies posted to USenet and emule :)

This may work in USA but in NZ and im sure some other places the broadband is sooo slow and expensive it just wouldnt be worth it, seems to take hours to download 700mb let alone 3-4GB of HD content! How big is the average HD movie?

I think the hd movie is probabaly more than 4 gig and i think it could anywhere from 10-20 gigs

most movies currently on live is 720 and not 1080... this means there is still room for a disk with full content.

I wish there was ownership, or at least have it where you can re-download a movie for free if you've already paid for it. Maybe a monthly fee of $17.99 and you can download and unlimited movies a month and store up to 3 on your HDD at any given time or you could pay more and get more at one time.

Or MS could just buyout Netflix and call it a day. I think that'd be the really smart move. Let netflix stay as is and then change Live marketplace to Netflix Marketplace and let people with netflix accounts add on digital downloads to their account.

Originally posted by lecsiy:

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Well we all know how this is the future of movies. I think if MS lowered prices (points) they could really be onto a winner.

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sorry dbl

Hd content is around 4gb per movie, all that data cannot be hold on mosts computer so that an investment of at least 150 to 200 on storage.

750gb = 185 movies on HD

that may sound big enought but it is not. at least not for me

Another problem is the sharing fact,how can u lend a movie to a friend?
encoding takes time it's not a 5 min task

Not everybody has 50mb internet, Here in peru a 2mb line costs 100$


This is onyl good for piracy cuz ppl will still get the movie even thought it takes day and they have to wait for 3 hours to burn it.

cuz they are not expending any more money, internet is already paid, the burner is in the computer and a blank disc costs cents everywhere.

These movies services are not gonna have a good time until ppl become more conscious

ok question, I have xbox live so i will be able to get the movies downloaded for a pretty good price if you ask me. but if I download the HD content will it still show on a regular TV.
Also, I have a DVD Writer connectd directly to my tv, so I would be able to watch and burn at the same time.
Lets say I had a HD tv setup with the DVD writter, what would the finished product look like, anybody tried???
Just an idea
LD

For me this is nothing new at all. I feel this is a saftey measure from the 2 companies due to the fact they are lossing on the next generation disc format with hd dvd.