Video downloads at Wal-mart (U.S. only)

Somehow film distribution seems just a hot topic to be. Most of the money comes with a movie so no longer at the box office, but by including the DVD sales. You know, succession wars rage, and the format itself as the successor to the 4.7 GB disc will prevail, as always, depends on several factors. Some voices remind example as reported to the role of the porn industry than Betamax against VHS won, but with broadband internet in every office, the situation is much different anyway. The fact that the network has a large role in matters of film distribution will play is clear, and not just a la Netflix, where even with physical carriers operate is (= order DVDs via the network and send back). The self-destructive Flexplay DVD to the consumer going to the Post for the return shipment to save, was not well received. No, the keyword for the future is to download. And on the field is so enormous seething, last year, for example, Google bought Youtube for good half billion dollars. This is first time to a different market, namely with the "user generated online video" (ugov), according Screen Digest in 2006, almost exploded, so that about half of all visited online videos on this segment to fall (again, U.S. figures). How to convert the money into it, however, is still unclear. Only 15% of the revenues were "ugov" generated. But the movie industry is increasingly in the direction gezwungernermaßen video downloads, not only for promo purposes (driven by file sharing, hindered by copyright issues). Now, as Wal-mart a download service for movies and TV shows in DVD-like quality starts, the only of America can be accessed. (DVD-like quality that so often in poor quality - the movie files to be between 500 MB to a GB in size.) It is interesting to know that about 40% of all DVD purchases in America on Wal-mart run - here is growing is a big player in the business, which is also the first to have done, all the major studios in his boat to fetch, but again neither himself nor the business wants to destroy the discs. This is especially evident in the pricing, because with prices ranging from around 10-15 dollars per film is not far below the DVD prices. This can be downloaded movies only be played from PCs, not Macs, of course, certainly not from Linux boxes, but not from DVD players, which is a real shortcoming. In fact, the plural of PC in this case also mißweisend, because of license reasons, of course, only one PC at Wal-mart is registered, a downloaded movie. The DRM technology used on Microsoft's back, as players can only Windows Media Player V.10 may be used, or a Wal-mart derivative thereof. The price is also only the movie itself and not the various additional clips on the DVDs can be found. All in all is not really an attractive option for DVD, even if the relevant downloads to coincide with the DVD releases start. Another step in a clear direction but it is all, and it will be interesting to further development.  more infos at bei mediadownloads.walmart.com deutsche Version dieser Seite: Videodownloads bei Wal-mart (US only)