Apologies for the rant, but this was something that I wrote on a BBC blog post that I was quite proud of:
Gotta love the film industry, after nearly 10 years of broadband in certain parts of the world they *still* won’t offer streamed movies. Instead they’re obsessed with pushing file sizes up by forcing Blu-Ray into the market, which lets be honest is little better than a DVD, just so it’ll put people off downloading that format or making re-encoding them more difficult.
I’m a customer. I want movies on my computer, not on a million boxes with shiny DVD’s in them. I don’t want to have to rip the film from the DVD. I want them in a lean and efficient file format like avi/divx (700 – 1,400Mb). Do this and I will pay you £2-3 per film. Provide an option to download a version for my mobile/iPhone/Andriod device and you’ll make a fortune from new and old films alike.
Adjust to the market demands set by your customers, instead of encouraging your customers to bypass your business.
