View Full Version : The cost of format shifting


jvillain
07-22-09, 11:01 PM
Ars Technica has an interesting story up about Disney adding SD cards in with DVDs and the added cost.

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/07/disney-puts-toll-on-format-shifting-rolls-out-microsd-films.ars

Rthoreau
07-25-09, 09:12 AM
I read that article and thought at least a studio is aware of other formats I hope it's not locked down with DRM so I can actually use the SD card for other things such as pictures, or other files. What would be cool is if I could download the content from a kiosk and put it on my own media. Why doesn't Disney just use USB dongles I bet a few people would buy Mickey Mouse shaped dongles as well as other famous characters.

qz3fwd
07-25-09, 09:01 PM
Likely it will require new hardware to playback the cards and decrypt the infected scrambled content. No thanks.

johnbe
07-25-09, 10:16 PM
They should be doing this with blu-ray instead of dvd. In any case, I don't see too many paying the premium as it is too easy to copy dvd's now. Also, since they are including digital copies and/or dvd's with blu-ray, they probably figure it doesn't make since to try it with blu-ray.