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The problem with that is studios like suckers buying the special editions. They know they can slap a huge mark-up on a title which has an extra DVD, a metal box and handful of collectable cards. It might cost them a $1 extra in trinkets yet retail for $10 more.

Aside from that, I doubt a kiosk system will result in cheaper titles than standard disks. More likely it will just allow stores to say to customers - "we don't have title BLAH in stock, but you (or I) can use that device in the corner to cut you a copy, print a sleeve and the liner notes". I very much doubt such disks will be any cheaper though than regular editions.

I also question if there is much benefit to home users of such a system. The home user not only incurs a 9Gb download for a regular DVD, but also the expense of DL discs and printing for themselves. That's a huge download and hassle just for a SD movie when the tools are not *that* complex for somebody to just rent a DVD and copy that instead.]]>Feb 4th 2009 8:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/
DrXym - yeah, special editions are a great money making tool but not when you're only going to sell two of them. The major advantage of the Kiosk system, whether it's for this or for SD cards, is that you can have a library far in excess of what any store can reasonably hold, and you don't have to press thousands of discs just to get the cost to something reasonable.

People will still want, and pay through the nose, for titles like "Star Wars 7: Han and Leia get married. Special Edition Director's Cut with Free Laserdisc and DIVX (the dead Circuit City format)", but the kiosk will be there to give them the option of buying more obscure material, be it a Goldie Hawn comedy from 1982 that nobody likes, or a classic art film that might get shelf space in a specialist store in the center of a large city, but would never turn up at Blockbuster.
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Kiosks and downloading were foreign ten plus years ago, but now we can download music from Amazon and rent movies at Red Box. What's to stop someone like Best Buy or Blockbuster from doing a DVD DL kiosk for titles that have no churn?

I for one wouldn't mind if they replaced one row of DVDs with a row of DVD DL Kiosks and the remaining rows with a larger Blu-Ray selection. If a kiosk could burn a full TV series boxed set, print a full color cover for the case and decent light scribe label on the disc, that would be pretty cool.

My only concern would be longevity. Burned discs degrade at a faster rate than pressed, but so long as I could rip the DVD DL in question and place it on a media server, I'd feel a bit more comfortable.]]>Feb 4th 2009 10:41AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/They tried that with music CDs, and it fizzled. Why would DVDs do any better?

"home users downloading a legitimate flick over the Internet"
DVD images are large. A home user could stream a movie quicker and with a lot less bandwidth.

]]>Feb 4th 2009 9:09AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/It's not, it's just more unnecessary Toshiba bashing at every opportunity from people who call themselves journalists.]]>Feb 4th 2009 5:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/
Thanks but NO Thanks... Heard that song lately? I want my MTV?

New song.... I want my HD-TV!

If it ain't in HD, it isn't worth my time, or my money.

TGC]]>Feb 4th 2009 6:02PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/
So the studios want me to buy a disk downloaded while I wait at a kiosk- instead of a nice retail packages product- and they still wont let me legitimately rip my dvds to my Mymovies server? They save money in costs, and they will probably charge the same price- they can piss off as far as I am concerned. I will just continue to buy my dvds legitimately and then burn them to my server any damn way I please. ]]>Feb 5th 2009 12:22AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/
www.made2rent.com

I wonder what will happen to Qflix?]]>Feb 11th 2009 5:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/04/dvd-forums-latest-standard-dvd-download-for-dl-revealed-in-lic/Mar 3rd 2009 8:32PM