On Jan 8, 7:33 pm, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > 3) BluRay is a stop-gap technology (I agree with Joe and Tor on this). > Your average consumer finds streaming video good enough. The thing > holding back streaming video is content.
Typically, streaming rights for movies are tied to pay TV windows (half a year to a year), after which they vanish again. Older movies don't have any digital distribution set up at all, making it costly to negotiate with all interested parties (directors and actors often get a profit share, and international distribution is often handled by different studios). Studios make more money from renting / buying discs, so that probably won't change soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
