Channels could the compete who gets the best time based licenses, who gets the new hot stuff first, etc. By only granting one license per are you can enforce some scarcity and get your money & hopefully users liked it. Not more you can do with no back channel for customers to request individual shows and pay for them. So you sold a license to a local broadcasting company to for a time window and number of runs for a show. And also broadcasts were regionally bound. Yeah, this really looks to me like someone still clinking to the long obsolete broadcast model, where you had no back channel to your customers from them to request what they want & to pay for it. But I argue they are much less compared to those who are unhappy with the current streaming offerings. Sure some people will do anything and everything to pirate. Almost everybody told me "I can't even figure out how I can download the movie I paid for" and just opted for torrenting. If I paid for a cinema ticket once I should have the right to download that movie and have it stored offline forever.Īlmost nobody who pirated movies (of those I spoke with) did so out of being cheap or poor. The movie industry should stop trying to sell us the same thing several times. Plus what happens if you want to load up 10-20 movies on your laptop and go camping? Tough luck. You basically pay to be severely inconvenienced. I have convenience in the cinema so I pay for movies there quite often.Īs for digital distribution, I don't feel confident in any platform. Piracy seems to have arisen mostly because the commercial options were really hard to work with - and the subsequent forceful adoption of DRM didn't help either.Ĭonsumers want convenience. If anybody is to blame, it's the clueless pliant consumers that reward media companies for creating netflix clones. Bittorrent really has jackshit to do with dozens of streaming services existing. They want complete control over how their media is promoted and distributed, they don't like delegating any of that control to another company. ![]() ![]() Dozens of streaming services are a thing because these companies are control freaks that want to reinvent Netflix rather than license their content to Netflix. It's doubly senseless to be upset about this since dozens of streaming services would be a thing even if piracy weren't. Getting upset with other people because you choose to do that is senseless. > I do pay for (nearly) a dozen different streaming services. Why would DRM be a thing even if piracy weren't? Because the companies that employ it are control freaks who, among other things, would like to sell people the same product numerous times. I buy music because music is sold without DRM, despite music being easier to pirate that movies (being a fraction of the size means it can be downloaded many times faster.) ĭRM would be a thing even if piracy weren't, and despite piracy, DRM needn't be a thing. HDCP and CEC is arguably a huge downgrade from SCART in that regard. Plus, getting suboptimal image is not as bad as getting no image at all, or missing features. S-Video was the common "quality" setting that "just worked", which is close enough to component (and thus RGB) in quality for the material of the time. The same setup does not work at all on a slightly newer iteration of Android TVs from Philips, despite both running a similar Android Oreo build.Īlso note: The default for SCART was composite, with optional S-Video and RGB support, and very rarely, component (which quality-wise would be somewhere around RGB). Case-in-point: I have an older Philips Android TV, where CEC in my setup works fine. It's just now called HDMI-CEC, and is very much a hit-or-miss scenario, even within the same brand. We still to this day have trouble with SCART-like features. Any issue makes HDCP kill the connection and renegotiate content protection, which takes time where there is no content. In reality, HDCP causes issues with DisplayPort and HDMI link by being one of the weakest links (HDCP signalling is usually the problem in long or cheap cables). ![]() ![]() Not only that, I certainly have bad devices supporting HDCP. That's not really a good thing about HDCP at all.
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