Now this is what I was talking about. This is about freeing content. Yesterday I shared my thoughts around the it being a dumb bad limiting idea to create films in 3D with the main driver being a way to force people to only watch movies in movie theaters.
I was worried that people in Hollywood would revert back to their skittish stance on digital movies. Now I hear that perhaps future movies on BluRay discs may contain a copy of the movie in iPod-rady format as well.
This is awesome, this is progressive. This sets content free. What better way to combat illegal downloads than to give people high quality, readily available versions on discs they already bought. Now I know that this is still just a rumor, but it wouldn't surprise me that this is what Apple is trying to do. It's like what I said Sony should have done - bundled a PSP-ready disc in every DVD case. They missed the boat, hopefully Apple (and Hollywood) will not.
Especially with the kind of capacity we are talking about, it would definitely make sense to support a _few_ standards, such as HD, analog and a compact digital format, a bit in the same way that with current DVDs they use extra space for additional soundtracks. I can't imagine the ipod format taking more than an extra 5 or 10% space. Of course, there would have to be an industry standard, as it does add up...
Posted by: Tempus | April 26, 2006 at 01:50 PM