Re: Disney: Blu-ray Needs Lower Player Prices

On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:14:34 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
| 
|> 
|> 3.  Movies on demand.  This is similar to online delivery, but is done
via
|>     the television programming provider (cable for now, but I am sure
DBS
|>     will catch up soon).
| 
| Are you talking about PPV, or a server full of movies somewhere that you

| can queue up a selection from without PPV-like fees?

I've heard of different kinds of this.  Not just PPV, but also a general
play
request kind of thing for a certain stock of movies they were allowed to
play
any time a customer with a high enough tier requested it, at no per play
cost.
You could randomly tune the few channels this was on and see other movies
other
people had requested.  By contrast, PPV were often scheduled, and you had
to
make a pay selection to get to see it.  The combination would be pay to
have
a movie played and only you get to see it.  In some cases you are renting
a
channel for the time of the movie.  In other cases a high capacity data
link
sends the movie to your STB's hard drive taking maybe 10 minutes to do
that,
and you can even start watching it as soon as the transfer begins.

I have none of those services myself.

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