Admittedly, I enjoyed the smartglass experience when I purchased the movie on Xbox Video.
More of a get with the times thing. Disks are going to go away.
Disks going away? Ok there. Lots of media comes and goes - it's the nature of the game.
Splitting material that used to come on the same released product between several different distributors in the hopes that fans will buy 3-4 versions of the same product to get what we should all get in the 1st place - while padding corporate thick wallets? No thanks!! That's just pathetically greedy. Not gonna happen, Paramount/Bad Robot. Go frak yourselves :-/
Oddly this is the sort of thing just encourages piracy, as that becomes the only way to get everything in one place. If the movie companies want their customers to support them and actually buy their movies, they need to make their customer base happy, not feeling like they're being gouged.
As for discs going away, I certainly hope not. I want something thats mine, I own, and can use whenever I want, however I want, not this DRM-loaded always-online you'll-use-it-how-we-say nonsense. If I paid for it, its mine.
Oddly this is the sort of thing just encourages piracy, as that becomes the only way to get everything in one place. If the movie companies want their customers to support them and actually buy their movies, they need to make their customer base happy, not feeling like they're being gouged.
As for discs going away, I certainly hope not. I want something thats mine, I own, and can use whenever I want, however I want, not this DRM-loaded always-online you'll-use-it-how-we-say nonsense. If I paid for it, its mine.
I still remember ppl saying that about computer games in the past; myself included. I fear it will be in my lifetime when the unwashed masses will claim "You do not payed for the movie, but for the license to use it at the publishers desire".
I'll wait six months and buy it for $7.00 out of the Walmart Blu-ray discount bin.
It'll be the first Trek video I'll have done this way.
But TRIBBLE-um, I'm not buying into Their tricks.
:cool:
STO Member since February 2009. I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born! Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
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Admittedly, I enjoyed the smartglass experience when I purchased the movie on Xbox Video.
More of a get with the times thing. Disks are going to go away.
Disks going away? Ok there. Lots of media comes and goes - it's the nature of the game.
Splitting material that used to come on the same released product between several different distributors in the hopes that fans will buy 3-4 versions of the same product to get what we should all get in the 1st place - while padding corporate thick wallets? No thanks!! That's just pathetically greedy. Not gonna happen, Paramount/Bad Robot. Go frak yourselves :-/
As for discs going away, I certainly hope not. I want something thats mine, I own, and can use whenever I want, however I want, not this DRM-loaded always-online you'll-use-it-how-we-say nonsense. If I paid for it, its mine.
I still remember ppl saying that about computer games in the past; myself included. I fear it will be in my lifetime when the unwashed masses will claim "You do not payed for the movie, but for the license to use it at the publishers desire".
It'll be the first Trek video I'll have done this way.
But TRIBBLE-um, I'm not buying into Their tricks.
:cool:
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion