Comment probably not a conspiracy ... (Score 1) 321
"Is there a corporate conspiracy to limit recording time of camcorder to about an hour"
When I was in college I spent about a month in Philadelphia -- and my friends and I were amazed at the boot-legs of various movies. My friend bought one and I (being from a not-so-populated-area) sat down to watch Amistad -- while it was still in theaters! To my dismay, this bootleg was nothing more than some schmoe sitting in the theatre with a video camera. After seeing a few heads walk in across the screen we decided to stop watching. Now, a video cam capable of doing more than 1 hour of recording and at some sort of digital quality that can be plugged right into a computer and copied over -- this has got to be keeping an executive somewhere up at night ...
When I was in college I spent about a month in Philadelphia -- and my friends and I were amazed at the boot-legs of various movies. My friend bought one and I (being from a not-so-populated-area) sat down to watch Amistad -- while it was still in theaters! To my dismay, this bootleg was nothing more than some schmoe sitting in the theatre with a video camera. After seeing a few heads walk in across the screen we decided to stop watching. Now, a video cam capable of doing more than 1 hour of recording and at some sort of digital quality that can be plugged right into a computer and copied over -- this has got to be keeping an executive somewhere up at night