"the biggest potential plus we see would be an in store kiosk that burns discs while you wait, saving SKUs and packaging costs for suckers who bought the special edition"
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.
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"the biggest potential plus we see would be an in store kiosk that burns discs while you wait, saving SKUs and packaging costs for suckers who bought the special edition"
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.