i'd wager that the look and sound is part of the experience.
as for the news, i think the resolution should match whatever it's being viewed on. if the tv is hd, the broadcast should be.

i thought it was for the Kins

where's my personal sam site and suitcase nuke? surely the founders meant any type of arms. any argument against those can easily be used against any other type of weaponry. it's all or none or gtfo.

Or random, say 2-3, car bombs going off in major cities over a couple of days. If placed in the right spot, they could cripple those economies for weeks. Rinse and repeat every couple of months.

It is really sad all the money that we waste, when most of it won't stop something so miniscule yet effective.

I didn't rtfa, but..

AFAIK, takedown requests happen after it is suspected that a file may violate the DMCA.
So, can you just browse/search publicly shared folders? Otherwise, how would any content company know what is shared (unless posted on some public page), so they could then file a takedown request?

He's not talking about first run viewing ffs. He's talking about what is currently available for rent.

If you can rent out the physical copy for $1-2 (say from redbox), a copy that has the ability to be copied and never rented again, then surely you can rent me a streaming version (that can't be copied and is of lessor quality than that of the blu-ray) of that same movie for the same price.

They need to fix that problem.

I agree. I'd even make it (or some other way of "must be made available" language) a provision of copyright. No more vault-hoarding. Out of print should mean out of copyright.

surprisingly, my 4-year-old blu-ray player's netflix app is much better than roku's, at least when it comes to browsing.

and even then, it will still not be anywhere near the quality of the physical good.

I'll never get the douches who buy those $20 vudu/(insert other online digital retailer) movies. For the same price, and most often cheaper, you can get the disc (which has a good chance at including an ultraviolet copy, which can be streamed through vudu). Plus, you can always resell/lend/trade the disc (and keep the ultraviolet, though it's not legit). Also, what happens when the company folds? Fools, I tell ya.

yeah, i should've said "this new console", but hearing that even some ps4 games are nerfed down is pretty lame.

While I wasn't expecting 4k levels of resolution, that these new consoles aren't even pure 1080p/60 is pretty fucking pathetic.

Bandwidth is way, way cheaper than packaging and retail distribution (especially if they distribute via torrent. where's my distribution discount?), so the costs should be less. that, and the fact that most physical goods can be easily borrowed, resold, whatever. taking away that should also lower the cost. I do realize this is about pc software, most of which is p.i.t.a. to resell, as cd-keys are now generally tied to an account, but hey, the account can be sold; license terms be damned. I also realize that because there are still physical goods, the digital distribution system has to pick up some of that slack, but what about when it's 100% download-only?

totally overpriced, even compared to other physical stores. perhaps barnes and noble will be next? i have no idea who is keeping these places in business.

Thought I'd give it a go.