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Does anyone have any experience or recommendations in terms of a service to use to buy digital distributions of movies? There are obvious contenders like iTunes, Zune, Amazon, Sony, etc. Are there advantages to any of them over others that might not be obvious on the surface?
I recommend Netflix + a copy of Handbreak.
I use itunes since I'm entrenched in the service from my iPhone and iPod's. I don't tend to buy digital copies, but when I get the vouchers with my blu-ray's I tend to go itunes. Although if you have a roku you can play your library of Amazon movies on that as well as your PC.
Why would you buy digital movies? Worst of all worlds IMO. Buy that shit on Blu-Ray and rip it. At least then you have a physical copy.
This will be a moot point soon. Cling to your collector's obsession while you still can!
Diff speaks the god damn truth. It'll be far less compressed as well.
I'll cling to quality while I can. Just like you hate poorly compressed mp3s, I can't stand the artifacting on badly compressed movies, specially HD ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
We rapidly approach a future where video compression will not be as necessary.
I don't have a collector's mentality at all, but if I did, I wouldn't collect worthless bits and bytes.
We're still a good ways off from that. Uncompressed video is a HUGE data hog. Hell a minute of uncompressed 1920x1080 footage, just the video no audio, is like 8 - 10 gigs easily. I really don't see the infrastructure being in place to support downloading multiple terabyte sized movies in the next 5 years. I think being able to download an uncompressed movie is still a long ways off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Just my opinion though, we'll see where things go.
Plus I like my consumer rights, I like being able to sell something if I don't want it any more. How do you go about selling your iTunes movies you don't want?