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So people don’t want to watch movies online… tell us something we didn’t already know. The internet should be used to pull the movie down but then there should be a way to get the movie on the tv. Like a dvd or a protable device, ipod.

NEW YORK - Only one in five online video viewers has watched or downloaded a full-length movie or television show, according to a new AP-AOL Video poll.



Overall, more than half of Internet users have watched or downloadedvideo. News clips were the most popular, seen by 72 percent of onlinevideo viewers, followed by short movie and TV clips, music videos,sports highlights and user-generated amateur videos.

Poll: Online viewers shun lengthy videos - Yahoo! News

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Could this be a response to last months Burn to DVD launched by CinemaNow? Sounds like it…

Accused often of being anti-consumer when it comes to digital media, the movie industry has plans to relax controls over how films are copied to DVDs.In the past, watching a movie downloaded off the Web meant viewing it on a PC. Soon, people will be able to copy a digital movie onto a specially made DVD under rule changes expected to be adopted by the DVD Copy Control Association, the group that produces the technology designed to prevent DVDs from being copied.

Studios to OK copying movie downloads to disc | CNET News.com

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We are getting so close to my dream of having every great sports moment on demand via the Internet. I would love to have access to all of the greatest boxing fights from Ali on up. This is great news from ESPN! I only hope my cable provider has this option. Gotta go check…

It’s a sports fan’s dream: instant, on-demand access to classic sports moments like Muhammad Ali’s knockout of Sonny Liston in 1965 or Dwight Clark’s leaping catch in the back of the end zone to take the 49ers to the Super Bowl in 1982 or Kirk Gibson’s last-gasp home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series for the Dodgers.ESPN took a major step toward this goal in June when it consolidated many of its archives in its on line video service called ESPN 360. The hitch is that you have to be a subscriber to Verizon, Adelphia or another of a handful of regional broadband providers to have access to all the film in the ESPN 360 service.

Sports’ greatest hits at one Web site | CNET News.com

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I have created a Free DVD tracker. You can list your favorite DVD’s in one place. Create reviews and share your lists with other members. It’s totally free, so go here and check it out.

http://freedvdtracker.ning.com/

Let me know what you think.

My Movie Download

I read this article on latimes.com and thought there were two really good points I mentioned in my earlier post.

Point 1)

CinemaNow’s service uses relatively new anti-piracy technology that prevents a burned DVD itself from being copied. Because that technology is still being tested, the initial batch of titles being offered was described by Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff as what’s left “at the video store when you arrive too late and the shelves are picked clean.”
I love the part about being picked clean, but he is spot on with his comments.

Point 2)

The limited content selection and older titles is not good…

“The limited scope of titles available in the initial phase of CinemaNow’s service will limit its usefulness for learning whether consumers are ready to pay to burn DVD movies at home, analysts said.”
“There’s a huge amount of interest in this,” he said. “The results ofthis will be scrutinized very closely. I just wish they’d come out with something better than ‘Charlie’s Angles: Full Throttle.’ They needmovies that people want to pirate.”

I could not agree more with his point. Give people what they want to pirate! If this a test give at least one new realese people really want to own.

With all that said I can’t go to a news source with out reading about this new technology. It’s online, in print and on tv, so let’s hope this buzz turns into a real product the consumer wants.
Source below:

DVD Deal Lets Films Go From Web to TV - Los Angeles Times

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