This is cool but not really an issue for any movie that would make it to "Sundance, Caanes, or Tribeca"
The people who watch "films" aren't really a mass market. Those same people stayed with laser disk becuase it had no compression, thus better video quality.
This is good it may get a lot of films seen in high def that might not have been seen at all.
It will pair well with netfilx's willingness to let indie filmmakers distribite via netflix.
Of course the BD alliance can afford this, 1 million in mastering fees waived for 1000 movies is small change for the combined columbia, MGM, Fox, Disney(Buena Vista, Sony screen gems etc...
Typically they do better than that. If a film is worthwhile it gets picked up and distributed. So insetad of just getting a marginal release on a fledgling format it will get a theatrical release, a dvd and a blueray. The members of the BD association can do this 1 because they have money. 2 They are mostly MOVIE studios and stand to profit greatly by purchaing worthwhile independent content and profiting off it's release.
Not to knock anyone supporting the smaller indie films, like student projects. It's just not really important to the format war at all. Movies of any commercial quality are bought by studios.
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This is cool but not really an issue for any movie that would make it to "Sundance, Caanes, or Tribeca"
The people who watch "films" aren't really a mass market. Those same people stayed with laser disk becuase it had no compression, thus better video quality.
This is good it may get a lot of films seen in high def that might not have been seen at all.
It will pair well with netfilx's willingness to let indie filmmakers distribite via netflix.
Of course the BD alliance can afford this, 1 million in mastering fees waived for 1000 movies is small change for the combined columbia, MGM, Fox, Disney(Buena Vista, Sony screen gems etc...
Typically they do better than that. If a film is worthwhile it gets picked up and distributed. So insetad of just getting a marginal release on a fledgling format it will get a theatrical release, a dvd and a blueray. The members of the BD association can do this 1 because they have money. 2 They are mostly MOVIE studios and stand to profit greatly by purchaing worthwhile independent content and profiting off it's release.
Not to knock anyone supporting the smaller indie films, like student projects. It's just not really important to the format war at all. Movies of any commercial quality are bought by studios.