This isn't news, it was just Engadget HD was at the height of its anti-Toshiba trip when the Download/DL logo was announced, and so decided to interpret it as a ridiculous HD DVD by the back door technology rather than taking it at face value. It's not as if the DVD Forum hadn't already announced the technology (I remember reading about it on Slashdot two years ago), or that the brand was anything other than obviously associated with the technology.
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.
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.
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This isn't news, it was just Engadget HD was at the height of its anti-Toshiba trip when the Download/DL logo was announced, and so decided to interpret it as a ridiculous HD DVD by the back door technology rather than taking it at face value. It's not as if the DVD Forum hadn't already announced the technology (I remember reading about it on Slashdot two years ago), or that the brand was anything other than obviously associated with the technology.
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.
Spot on.
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.