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How is this in any way beneficial to me the consumer? They say that it will allow the studios to bring movies to the home faster. So what? Why do I care if I have to wait another month to get the movie on Blu-Ray? I’ve survived this long.
There are only two reasons that I can think of that studios would want to bring movies to the home faster:
1) Sales profits
2) Prevent people from turning to piracy to get their movies sooner (see #1)
It has the side effect of getting movies to the consumer earlier ([i]potentially[/i]) but let’s not pretend that they’re doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Oh, and let’s not forget that we lose our analog outputs here. There goes the Hauppauge HDPVR. That thing has now become a paperweight. And sorry everyone with an older HDTV that uses component.
Hey, now we can make people spend more money on new TVs too. It’s a win win… What other ways can you think of to take my money from me and prevent me from doing completely legal things? (no, I’m not bitter…)
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