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Engadget: Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help?
Engadget HD: Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help?
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Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help?
Engadget —
... course, with Steve Jobs listed as Disney's largest stockholder and the rumored Apple tablet being a media-redefining device that will single-handedly save newspapers while ridding the world of hunger and ignorance, well, you can see where the speculation is headed. Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help?
Engadget HD —
... You know who's missing from the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE) consortium? A group bent on redefining the way we buy, access, and play digital content with a membership roster that includes Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox, HP, Intel, Lions Gate, ...
Disney wants you to throw out your DVDs
DVICE Atom Feed —
... it's a lot like a DVD, just a digital one. After all, you can use a DVD on any device capable of playing them, but — thanks to DRM — if you bought a movie on the Xbox Marketplace, you wouldn't then be able to turn around and magically play it on a different machine.
Disney isn't the first one to think of a cross-platform distribution method, though we're definitely pro any idea that shakes up the horribly insular nature of today's DRM media.
Wall Street Journal, via Engadget
Disney And Apple Team Up To Create A New Video Distribution Model
OhGizmo! —
... game console, portable media player, etc. You would be able to do this without having to worry about ripping the DVD, you could simply activate a key that comes with your movie.
Yes, this is DRM. However, it sounds like the right kind of DRM (if there really is such a thing). As long as they aren’t going to tie you down to very specific hardware, it could turn out alright. It will be interesting to watch this develop, but I’m still wary of any sort of DRM.
[ WSJ ] VIA [ Dvice ]
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