Digital Cinema

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Mary Hodder on 2003/05/17:

  „The NY Times (htm) looks at MovieLink and CinemaNow (and a third one not yet up and running: StarzOnDemand) where 24 hours after downloading a movie, it self-deletes from your harddrive. "Apart from their 24-hour availability, today's movie-download services offer no advantages over TV, video stores and NetFlix.com (a mail-order DVD-rental outfit). Movielink and CinemaNow stand out primarily for their puny selection, poor video quality and overly rigid copy protection.“

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Digital Cinema

  „I'm not sure what the former editor of Slate means here, but between blogging (both the writing as well as the reading) as a new media, the napsterization of all sorts of media industries and the advent of iTunes and other media downloading services, to the kind of political organizating that MoveOn.org does (raising huge sums, getting the word out, organizing people to act), to flows of information from the NYTimes.com and such, to students applying for college, finding class information and posting assignments, to the ability for citizens to monitor their government and attend public meetings via webcast, to the paradigm shift for finance and banking (see this story about George Soros' former aide going to Brazil in 1999 to save their currency as an example of how deeply the internet and financial trading have been influenced by the web, with the implication that investors get instanteous financial information via new media and react accordingly, to how understanding money movement via networks is totally different than before, and that nation-states have very little control over the huge flows of currencies and the digital information flows that investors use to make decisions) not to mention stock and other financial instrument trading, to the complete shift in communications via email and P2P, to the granular segmenting of data and information sharing for and between people and companies that engage in it, all of which are dependent on many differnt forms of digitized media, the Internet has changed everything. To say the only success of the Internet and media is shopping and searching is absolutely ridiculous.“

Found at a page of Mary Hodder, posted on 2003/05/17

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Thursday's Fish Wrap

  „I just recently got "screwed" by a copy-protected CD earlier this week. Since I live in Canada, I could sue the music store HMV for missleading me into thinking that this was a CD when it doesn't even have the Philips CD logo. I could also sue EMI for using copy protection in the first place because here we have a added fee on most blank media.“

Found at a page of leo, posted on 2003/10/16

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scribbles of a lazy geek ;-)

  „As Mani Ratnam ingeminates the life and times of a creator, I continue to be amazed by his philosophy of cinema.“

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