With so many movie download sites around, what do you see for the future of the film industry?
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rjd_jr
Though a problem, don't think it will affect the decisions of moviegoers during initial release of a movie. Part of the appeal of the moviegoing process is watching it on a big screen with other people, not on a tiny t.v. screen. I don't see the appeal of pirated movies secretly taped in a theater, complete with the head in front obstructing the view.
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Molenir
I don't see a problem at all. First its only a very small segment of the population that would even consider downloading them, or would know how to do so, or know where to find them for download. Add in the extremely poor quality and the whole problem of people watching pirated versions seems silly. Now when you talk DVD quality rips, the same holds true. Most people don't know how to download them, how to play them once they have them. And its simply less trouble then its worth to just go out and buy a movie you enjoyed, then to download it onto your computer.
I just don't see it having a significant impact. Now people ripping DVDs, burning them, and selling them, that could greatly impact sales. Otherwise, its simply not economical to go after people for this issue.
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Brainiac
Now at the cinema, before they show the movie, they show an ad first imploring people not to copy movies and to report anyone who does. However, I think the studios and cinema chains are fighting a losing battle.
In future, I think movies will be made for home viewing. Huge screens will be the norm in most homes and movies will be instantly downloadable for a fee. I think cinemas will go the way of the drive-in.
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motytrah
I think Download sites are the key to the Japanese film industry. Sure, some Japanese film and television ends up in the west. But most of it is either anime or select action films. Most drama's languish. There's a large "fan sub" gray market in the west for Japanese drama. They should subtitle dramas and release them at the same time they play in Japan. Sell them for $1.99 an episode on iTunes or some equivalent.
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serindipity
This is so easy! As soon as the music and movie industries wake up and realize they can never beat file sharing networks and team up with the internet providers to collect royalties from downloaded content all this will go away and they will stop complaining about losing money, but in the mean time.....I have to buy another 1TB drive!
+iTunes is a crock! You can only download local content or from a limited selection of international stuff. Most of the music I like to listen to I cannot get on iTunes, so I have no choice than to look for alternatives.
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Farmboy
I think the movie theaters themselves will lower prices and size down, that is, there will be more rooms of smaller size with very popular movies being shown in more than one room. The total size of the theater will decrease as well. The number of available movies shown at any one time, however, will increase. I suspect adding a restaurant inside the theater and adding other money-making businesses will allow the theaters to survive.
The film industry will host more movies from their own websites, offering good quality and good bandwidth at a good price. If your choice is to spend four to six hours downloading to see a questionable quality movie that you have to check for viruses, or to pay a small amount to watch a quality show, I think many people will choose the latter.
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mikihouse
download sites..care to inform me where? webpages please
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buttamimi
I think much will depend on the hardware at home. If movies can be downloaded on demand, copied onto DVDs; watched on a large high definition TV screen, then I think movie theaters are going to take a hit. It will happen. Just a question of when. After all, mobile phones have greatly reduced public phone boxes. Of course, some people will still enjoy going to the theater, but on a rduced scale.
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thepro
more legal downloads will become the norm. but people still want to go to theatres.
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mareo2
Is convenient just make some clicks and start downloading something in home before go to work or sleep in place of make a trip to the movie teather or the video rental. Believe it or not some people conected their flat TVs to their computer and there are some Bluray rips in the net that look and sound really good. If you want a high quality experience go to the movie theater. But if you dont need so much quality and dont fell the need of see it when still is brand new... I think that these affect more the DVD-Bluray rental business more than the movie theater business. There is a huge market for digital content, the majority of the consumers are ready to pay for high quality media files.
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Gloobey
The days of people posting poor quality video files for download are long, long gone. In any case, nobody would download them. Most of what is downloaded is of excellent quality. As for whether or not this is a problem for the film industry, I don't think so. Most people who download a movie are just impatient for it to open here - it takes so damn long sometimes for a movie to finally open in cinemas in Japan - and when it does, they happily pay to see it in a movie theatre the way it shoul be sen.
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Nessie
And it's also great if you want to work on your Swedish by reading subtitles!
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gogogo
From a consumers point of view if you're getting something for free you'll say anything to keep it free. Unless you're in the music or movie industries you really can't see how bad it really is. Downloads are not profitable unless you're a TV celebrity, so 99.99% of bands have no chance of ever even making the money back from the instruments or computer they used to make their music, not because of greedy labels or RIAA but because no one buys music.
Unless your promoted on TV or in a TV advert or are famous or a band pre 2002 (before napster) or Paris Hilton you are not going to sell more than 30 copies per track.
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benhur
best comment i heard, gogogo! i totally agree with you.
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