Major studios to offer movies on Internet

[shochan]

Just a new way to collect them. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/17/video.on.demand.ap/index.html

[klay51]

sounds alot like divx...

[Greg12]

i refuse to have anything streamed to me because it'll look like crap and i refuse to have it deal with digital rights management. that stuff violates the fair use laws.

i'll just go out and rent a video or dvd.

[BJ_M]

wonder what happened to this ?

[AlecWest]

I'm betting on a 352x240 display. If the "on-demand" screen size was 720x480 or larger, I suspect customers with good broadband connections could watch them day and night ... right up to the moment their ISP said, "Hey, you're overutilizing bandwidth, buddy!!!" and cut or throttle their connection.

[MackemX]

don't you get similar stuff like that now but not just direct from the companies?

I know Sky does a kind of broadband service where you can download movies etc but I'm not too sure exactly what it is

the thing is with streaming is that you sometimes lose quality . I was streaming a programme from the BBC site and I couldn't watch it all. Instead I used Net Transport to download it real fast instead. When I watched it the quality was far better with the downloaded version than when I was watching it streamed

thanks again for pointing me to Net Transport AlecWest 8)

[AlecWest]

No problem. For fixed-file captures of "streamed" audio/video, Net Transport does the job well. However, as you can imagine, if it's a live stream, iffy quality is quite evident if you don't have a decent continuous stream.

BTW, if you want to see an example of a capture I made of a "live" stream (good broadband, thank goodness), I captured about 45 minutes of the "Groundhog Day" festivities ... streamed live from VisitPA.com. Here's the link to it:

http://68.178.143.167/gday.ram

I suspect this is about the max quality (320x240) you could get from a streaming source unless you had better than my 7gig download speed.

[MackemX]

sadly I don't play ram files as I don't like Real Audio and I'm not sure I have an alternative to play them as I've never really needed it

I was just surprised as when I downloaded the stream I could get the full 1Mb (120 KB/s) from my connection from the BBC site. When I was streaming it was much slower and it isn't a live stream. It's definitely not my download speed that was restricting bandwidth and making the quality suffer by having more blocking etc within the video

is there any reason why this would happen?