Saturday Night Television

Because they have a limited library of Blockbusters to show. Those channels are all i owned by Turner? I know they have a huge collection but I believe most of it is less than Saturday night material. If they wanted to show something else they don't own.... $$$

billw wrote:I had to buy all of our favorite Christmas movies on DVD.

And then you're lucky if you can find them, this actually fuels the piracy/downloading market. There's two reasons a lot of that material may not be available. First there might be small audience so going through the motions to author a DVD and make run of them in a pressing plant may not be worth it. Secondly the movie/music industry has always relied on being able to resell you the same crap over and over.

VHS > DVD > and now Blu-Ray. They could instead off these huge collections as downloads. The cost of production is nearly eliminated because once its mastered you only have bandwidth to worry about. They won't do that because they only get to sell it to you once. That is why you won't see them available for download and/or they'll be so crippled with DRM you'll be lucky if you can view them in 5 years. DRM has nothing to do with preventing piracy, I can make copies of anything and everything and I'm not the only one. DRM gives the product shelf life so they can continue the practice of reselling material.

chemung wrote:Now I don't believe that

Seriously unless its some obscure protection its been broken and there are tools available to do it and most of them are FREE. There was program called DVD decrypter that would copy any DVD disc and was updated as fast as they'd change the protection method. It's no longer updated because the guy who produced it apparently was forced to stop after breaking Macrovision's new "unbreakable" protection in a few hours. The ability to copy them was on the market before the majority of discs hit the shelves. They hyped this protection system for weeks prior to its release.

The fact is they cannot stop the collaborative effort of hundreds or even thousands of people tinkering to figure out how to do it.

Here's the thread from the original crack in the armor of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871


It's a little technical but quite interesting nonetheless.The movie industry spent hundreds of millions developing this protection and it was obsolete in 6 months.It was supposed to be unbreakable because it tied the the hardware to the disc however "The weakest link..."