D2D - Marvel and Lucasfilm

[swiss21]

Re: D2D - Marvel and Lucasfilm

dude, you are being a little rough. Have you never done a reply on the last message in the thread with quotes and spoken about the thread topic in general?

This is not a dissertation in work. It is just a forum. Chillalax.

Instigating doesn't serve any purpose other than to compound a problem, so why reply? I asked a question, he replied and so did I. He says he was clearly disagreeing with someone that didn't post until a day after he did @_@ Anyway this forum doesn't auto-quote the last reply like other forums do. It has a neutral reply button at the top and bottom, so I can't say I ever have.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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Instigating doesn't serve any purpose other than to compound a problem, so why reply? I asked a question, he replied and so did I. He says he was clearly disagreeing with someone that didn't post until a day after he did @_@ Anyway this forum doesn't auto-quote the last reply like other forums do. It has a neutral reply button at the top and bottom, so I can't say I ever have.

fair enough. Now on with our regularly scheduled programming...

[echopulse]

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Who quotes a post they agree with only to say they disagree? And so you were in disagreement as of 09-02-2013, 11:33 PM with a post that was made the next day on 09-03-2013, 01:16 PM? Clearly you are confused.

I'm not confused. I just made the mistake of using the quote button on the last post. I generally don't use the quote button, I usually use reply button. But I was replying in response to wildside, who said they didn't think Disney would ever join DECE. It just so happens that ruinit said the same thing. Sorry for the confusion.

[TheNewGuy]

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I really doubt they will have DC+, the Disney Movie Club has been selling these titles for the past year. I doubt they will even have new packaging.

why release them if nothing has changed? i cant imagine them including expired itunes copies for a re release? we defiantly know its not new itunes code since they dropped apple.

[lostinva]

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Right now it appears they are simply slapping a new UPC on them by way of a sticker on the shrinkwrap. If anything has changed regarding the digital copies, it isn't apparent from the packaging alone.

[olarmy96]

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I doubt Disney is going to support UV until they see that there's a business reason for doing so.

As long as folks jump all over DC+, why go UV?

As UV grows, I think more customers will feel the pain. Imagine you're setup with a new TV app for the Target service, but redeemed a movie on Vudu. DC+ isn't that great in that situation.

[echopulse]

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As I have said in other threads, Disney will adopt UV when there is consumer demand for it, and when it offers more benefit for consumers. Right now, it benefits those who have high speed internet connections, and portable devices with vudu apps. It's not as benefitial to those who have HD Displays that connect to Network Attatched Storage devices and use popular media players like Windows Media Center, Plex, XBMC, and others. When they have the Common File Format in use, all this will change, and then consumers will begin to see more benefits, and so will Disney.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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As I have said in other threads, Disney will adopt UV when there is consumer demand for it, and when it offers more benefit for consumers. Right now, it benefits those who have high speed internet connections, and portable devices with vudu apps. It's not as beneficial to those who have HD Displays that connect to Network Attatched Storage devices and use popular media players like Windows Media Center, Plex, XBMC, and others. When they have the Common File Format in use, all this will change, and then consumers will begin to see more benefits, and so will Disney.

I respectfully disagree. I run plex. I also run iTunes. Both are able to stream to TVs in my home.

Vudu is without question a vast improvement to the home entertainment experience.

When you depart from local storage and move to a streaming iVoD service like Vudu, Amazon Instant Video, or iTunes Cloud, the benefits are many.

The main one is I can take the media server off line and it has no effect. I do think the number of people who have a bleeding edge media server setup like you describe, but do not have internet would be very few. Perhaps rich folk who live in very rural areas. These are not the people who Disney will be making a move for. It is the nameless legions who all have access to ubiquitous broadband.

For them, there is a big step up in the home entertainment experience when going to a EST/iVoD model. Of the three (Vudu, iTunes Cloud, Amazon Instant) Only Vudu will let consumers stream 1080p of their existing DVD collections for an administrative fee of $5 per title.

Disney can not do business with Wal-Mart and leave Target and BestBuy out of the discussions. They will be pressured to join DECE to maintain business relationships with their distribution retail purchasing agents.