Back Patting Time on DVD Digital Copy
I completely forgot I wrote a post entitled “Copying Is Nice, But How About Including Digital Formats of Movies Right On DVDs?” back in May of last year with the following:
What I would love to see are DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-ray discs that include a digital rip of the film right on them. Yes, they no doubt would be covered head-to-toe with DRM, but at least it would save me the couple hours it takes to rip my own high-quality version of a DVD (I don’t even want to think about how long HD-DVDs or Blu-rays would take).
Well, it might be a little late to toot my own horn for calling that one when most others were thinking we’d simply eventually see the ability for iTunes to actually rip a film onto your computer (like we currently do with CDs), but hey, wish granted.
Not sure how I forgot writing that (maybe it’s time for a break), but thanks Tom for pointing that out.
And since this is a toot-my-own-horn post, how about these two paragraphs I wrote in December upon reading CNET’s post “Why Apple can’t do to video what it did to music” – which I thought was ridiculous:
I could go on and on about why I think this article is simply looking at the current state of things and deducing from that that Apple will not succeed in video content. Let me just lay out a not so far-fetched scenario:Apple launches the iTunes movie rental store and it immediately makes the next-gen AppleTV a major player. With Apple now successfully in the living room, both professional and user-generated content starts coming to iTunes at an even faster pace. Studios start selling DVDs with iTunes-ready digital copies already on them. High-def content comes to iTunes in a major way. NBC, still trying to decide which of its 20 options to use for its digital content (and confusing the hell out of customers), comes back to iTunes.
Looking pretty spot-on at this point, no?
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