Real Reson for no more DVD Screeners

[Gazorgan]

Great Article

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99307,00.html

[BJ_M]

really good (and true)

[bugster]

Interesting article. Just goes to show how the big enetrtainment businesses are using piracy as an excuse for their failings!

How long before the music studios prohibit the distribution of pre-release CD's without an armed guard ?

[Gees]

Go Indie! Go East Coast! Go! :cD

[coyote]

Great article...... just goes to show that those of us in New York do everything the best :P

And those guys in Cali (c'mon....Governor Schwarzenegger ) are scared at the glory of what is a New Yorker lol

[Gazorgan]

Gotta love Foxnews.

Valenti might have had a good point about piracy had he not followed his declaration with news that studios can't even distribute existing DVDs or tapes that are already in stores. Huh? Right there he seemed to negate his whole anti-piracy platform. If a tape/disc is available in a retail store, how can sending it to someone make it vulnerable to massive fraudulent copying?

The answer is, it can't. And frankly, the whole piracy debate smacks of a stalking-horse anyway. Movies are still not downloadable the way music is. Valenti is acting like there are huge lines to buy the kind of films Kramer wanted to make on "Seinfeld," with people's heads bobbing up in the picture, or with grainy, milky images.

Is such a dichotic statement. We all know that movies are indead downloadable, and we have passed the point where DVD's are downloadable. I'm waxing nostalgic for the days of 200 MB ASF's :P


What this really does is throw the whole piracy argumant out the window. If there are no screeners because of piracy, which isn't true, then what else isn't true??? It brings to mind the immortal phrase Why is that man smiling?

[RabidDog]

I think theyre trying to cut off one source and see what effect that has. I dont agree that the mission is a bad film. ALso he talks about universal being west coast and some other part of universal being east coast.?? Good points about most of the pap being pumped out as movies, really good movies show up the XXX, charlies angels rubbish as what it is, 90 minute wonders you wont remember longer than the popcorn you ate.

[lordsmurf]

Gotta love Foxnews.

Movies are still not downloadable the way music is. Valenti is acting like there are huge lines to buy the kind of films Kramer wanted to make on "Seinfeld," with people's heads bobbing up in the picture, or with grainy, milky images.

Is such a dichotic statement. We all know that movies are indead downloadable, and we have passed the point where DVD's are downloadable. I'm waxing nostalgic for the days of 200 MB ASF's :P

What this really does is throw the whole piracy argumant out the window. If there are no screeners because of piracy, which isn't true, then what else isn't true??? It brings to mind the immortal phrase Why is that man smiling?

I agree. Piss-poor fact checking when it talks about downloads. I'd never write an article as full of holes as that was.

It should more correctly read that most downloads are up sub-par quality and that most consumers, unlike the thriving MP3 sharing, are unaware of how to obtain and download high quality. Most try to get movies in the same places as their MP3's, and that's not how you do it. Fast connections and long download times are also required. This reporter is obviously ones of those people unaware of how and where to acquire DVD-quality files. But maybe it's better that way.

But the article, overall, is still true. Piracy has little to do with the end of screeners. Indeed, why is Valenti now smiling? I think that FOX News reporter, as shocking as it may be, actually got something right.

[The village idiot]

Most try to get movies in the same places as their MP3's, and that's not how you do it.

didn't know there was a different place

[The village idiot]

Oh yeah, almost forgot... HBO's Carnivale in ASF, all 300MB of it. Looks like garbage though.

[andkiich]

To quote a charatcer from one of my favorite films:

"I hate how fake Holywod is."

-- Jay, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

[The village idiot]

Studios participating in screen boycott:

The following are the companies involved:


DreamWorks
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
New Line
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Twentieth Century Fox
Universal Studios
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Bros. Pictures

Too bad, I bet pirated copies of the lord of the rings screens stimulated many sales for the movie.

[mysticgohan17]

Studios participating in screen boycott:

The following are the companies involved:


DreamWorks
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
New Line
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Twentieth Century Fox
Universal Studios
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Bros. Pictures

Too bad, I bet pirated copies of the lord of the rings screens stimulated many sales for the movie.

cant argue with you there

[Gazorgan]

Has anyone seen the WMV trailers for LOTR3 and Matrix3? Holy F*cking Sh*t! 1024x768 'HDTV' quality with 5.1 sound. Size wise we are looking at 4+ GB for 2 hour movie. Also see Terminator 2 special edition, has similiar encoding.

Now. WTF would can the studios be thinking? Seeing these trailers makes you want to run out and see the movies....and they are wildly popular on P2P networks. Hmmmmm. Did the studio's release them specifically at people from this forum etc? Or is it a partnership with M$ pushing their XP Media crap package? Or maybe the BS about M$ wanting to use their format for Theaters? I hope They don't actually think DRM works do they?