'Roll Your Own News' DVDs Now Shipping 90
theodp writes "Amazon.com and CBS have partnered to offer a la carte news clips on custom-made DVDs. Pay $24.95 and you'll get 10 clips or 90 minutes, whichever comes first. Not too surprisingly, CBS News seems to have the best coverage on the new service."
huh? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:huh? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm confused. Is this supposed to be "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"? Doesn't really seem to fit into either.
It's "news about stuff", 2 outta 4 ain't bad.
Re:huh? (Score:1)
The news is... (Score:3, Insightful)
The news here is that an "old media" company and former MPAA member (CBS) is offering to allow the general public to select multiple short copyrighted works, write them to a recordable medium, and ship the disc to the customer's home.
Bah. CBS. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bah. CBS. (Score:2)
What is you brilliant alternative resolution to that situation? Your guy wins by default?
Re:Bah. CBS. (Score:2)
How about they actually count the votes? The SC should have decreed a fair recount method (national, statewide, or local) given a decent timeframe, said it was binding, and said go to it. Only in this country would someone think that not knowing who the next president was two months plus before transfer of power was a constitutional crisis. And before you go spouting off about how it would have taken too long, think of what you would have be
Re:Bah. Bloggers. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bah. CBS. (Score:2)
Others have already pointed out bloggers who a
$30 for something you can tape (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:2)
Actually, a good quality copy of a news report could be useful for someone compiling a documentary, perhaps, depending on the liscensing they have on these things.
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:2)
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:5, Insightful)
And now you understand why the content producers are so keen on the broadcast flag. Then it becomes $30 for something you can't tape.
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:2, Informative)
Wonder no more... It's The Public Library. And I'm glad they do.
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:2)
This is quite competitive compared to the old "For a transcript to today's Oprah show send $15.95" ...
Re:$30 for something you can tape (Score:1, Redundant)
People who wanted to show their support for public television?
I did (Score:1)
Licensing (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Licensing (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I guess RIAA/MPAA & friends really are out to screw us over.
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Re:Licensing (Score:3, Funny)
I think it's perfect
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The price for the DVDs is a bit high, but I fully expect man people will start ordering sets of DVDs with full coverage of every major historical event in recent memory.
How much money are they going to make just printing DVDs of the coverage of the 9/11 attacks? How about the fall of the Berlin wall, and end of the cold war? Perhaps even videos about the START of the cold war for tha
Re:Licensing (Score:2)
CBSNEWS.
At those prices? (Score:2)
Also, you might consider the search terms "60 minutes torrent".
Re:At those prices? (Score:2)
Still numerous sales for content they would make NO money on otherwise.
60 minutes is only the first thing mentioned because it's the most recognized CBS News show. However, they're offering ALL their CBS News content, not just clips of 60 Minutes.
Re:Licensing (Score:2)
Well then, good news! It's a suppository.
Special Dan Rather Edition? (Score:2)
Here's what a Feb 2004 Washington Post article has to say:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7372-200 4Feb2?language=printer [washingtonpost.com]
"In 2000, the Boston Globe examined a period from May 1972 to May 1973 and found no record that Bush performed any Guard duties, either in Alabama or Houston, although he was still enlisted.
According to military records obtained by The Washington Post, Bush first requested and received permission in May 1972 to be
Re:Special Dan Rather Edition? (Score:2)
I corrected your opening sentence for you.
You're welcome.
Re:Special Dan Rather Edition? (Score:2)
What part of "has not been observed" don't you understand?
"His officers at Ellington Air Force Base wrote in May 1973 that Bush could not be
Re:Special Dan Rather Edition? (Score:2)
Sorry, but I don't waste my time with non-credible news sources. You might consider doing the same. You might also want to check that your "reality" isn't being distorted by the left-wing noise machine before you put your foot in your mouth again.
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Limited Use (Score:2, Insightful)
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Saying you could care less is saying you actually care.
Sorry for the rant.
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Old news (Score:3, Funny)
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I remember a time... (Score:5, Informative)
Not only did they drop it, but CNN/FOX/MSNBC offer premium content on their webpage for free.
Re:I remember a time... (Score:3, Insightful)
What makes it "premium?" Since it is free, you aren't paying extra for it. Since it is free, it is not above the normal offerings. Have you been drinking the marketing kool-aid again?
Is there really a market for this? (Score:2)
I'm dubious about the potential market for customized DVDs of old news clips. I just can't recall any instances where I've felt like sitting down to an evening of watching old 60 Minutes segments from way back when. News is attractive because it's happening 'right now', or because it tells an interesting story that we didn't know before. Old news clips have none of this immediacy or novelty, and without those critical interest factors, what's left for us to enjoy? Watching old news clips seems as exciti
Woohoo! (Score:2)
purpose (Score:5, Informative)
To everyone who seems to think this is useless, I think you've missed the point. The summary and headline are perhaps misleading. This seems to be more geared toward owning a copy of the clip or news segment, not a way to get the current news. THe usa today article says
.Re:purpose (Score:2)
That's recent news. The service isn't useful with this token historic date.
So basically what they sell is .. (Score:2, Funny)
New Anti-Piracy Measure Found! (Score:3, Funny)
My hat is off to you, CBS.
In other news, the RIAA has been experiment with zero value content for years now....
Ship me a dvd! (Score:3, Funny)
Cool!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Browsing through some of the clips, there's actually some really neat stuff available that would otherwise have been lost to the general public and appears to be a worthwhile trip down nostalgia lane. For example, their political [customflix.com] section has a vast array of news clips from the 2000 Presidential election. There are a couple of pre-9/11 snippets on gas [customflix.com] prices [customflix.com], and even what appears to be a segment on the Segway [customflix.com]. Plus there's a wide variety of interviews with people like Neil Armstrong [customflix.com], Jonathon "Fatal1ty" Wendel [customflix.com], Jon Stewart [customflix.com], and J. K. Rowling [customflix.com] dating back to 1999.
There's probably a rather large potential market for this kind of stuff too. It's certainly not the kind of thing you'll find a torrent for or dig up on YouTube. I know there are some interesting documentaries on there that I would certainly be inclined to purchase. And aside from the academic environment, I could imagine buying one just to get a look at how stuff used to be (and to give to your grandparents years later). As of now, there isn't much older footage (I think late 1999 is as far as it goes back), but hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg. If they offer much older stuff I'd definitely invest in a compilation of those big historical landmark broadcasts (e.g. Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missle Crisis, etc.).
On a side note, it'd be even cooler if someone like ESPN got into the action with this. I'd die for the ability to buy old baseball and football highlights and such. Just my $.02
Re:Cool!! (Score:3, Informative)
Plus I find that clips are filled with more fluff than a nice written summary. My father recently got my uncle one of those year year DVDs (something like this [edirectory.co.uk]) and when we watched it, we went almost went to sleep with the amount of moralizing/fluff that was in it (plus the super narrow focus on one story of that year and not a well
Re:Cool!! (Score:1)
You are right. All they have to do is let their marketing see your numbers:
"$9.99 online or just $0.99 on CD or 8-track tape, plus $11.00 S&H"
(and lose the part about waiting 4-6 weeks for them to process your order)
Re:Cool!! (Score:1)
Actually, its 60 Seconds [wikipedia.org], not 30.
Re:Cool!! (Score:2)
Great !
<tinfoil hat>Let's just hope they don't edit the "news" to fit the current administrations definition of history.
Ministry of Truth anyone ?
All it would take is new voice overs to old video footage.
</tinfoil hat>
Re:Cool!! (Score:2)
The US has always been at war with Iraq.
Re:Cool!! (Score:2)
Preview here! (Score:2)
Crying uncontrollably!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Kind of torn (Score:2)
Look at it another way (Score:2)
What the Hell is a Radio Picture? (Score:2)
Maybe if I banded together with 359 other people to archive all of our 15 minutes each of fame, it would be worth seven cents apiece for the official disc. Which we would then copy across the Net and burn for ourselves.
Haven't Mr and Mrs Everywhere done that already? (Score:1)
Stock cue VISUAL: cliptage, splitscreen, cut in bridge-melder, Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere depthunder (today MAMP, Mid-Atlantic Mining Project), spaceover (today freefly-suiting), transiting (today Simpson Acceleratube), digging (today as everyday homimage with autoshout).
Like in Stand On Zanzibar [streettech.com] by John Brunner (1968)? Hmm, nope, not yet. Wake me up when it's news.