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Movie downloading kiosks may be coming soon

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[Engadget] According to Reuters, the major movie studios are reportedly in talks with retail heavyweights like Wal-mart to theoretically offer their complete archives for downloading to in-store terminals with high-speed connections, where they would either be burned onto DVD or transferred to unspecified devices, a la that proposed DVD Station service we saw awhile back (which seemingly never materialized). While the prospect of having immediate access to almost every movie ever made is admittedly appealing, we're not really sure that we want to drive all the way over to Best Buy just to stand around waiting uncomfortably with our fellow patrons as we all clutch our iPods, nervously tap our feet, and wish we'd all just stayed at home and settled for whatever was on Moviebeam.

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Engadget: 1GB file sharing, address book, antispam/antivirus, and just about every other feature (and less) available on your run-o-the-mill, free email service. But if this is the kind of hard posing you need to remember your social status, then have it son, and double-quick 'cause the service is limited to only 10k of your well-heeled peers. (via Cosmos)

[Orange.blender.org] Elephants Dream: Well, the official web release of our movie is now just a few millifortnights away, and hopefully, all pre-orderers will have their DVDs in hand by now. So, depending on whether you’ve seen it already or you’re waiting for our encoder mill to finally get finished, this might be either a dessert or an appetizer ;-)

[Freedom-to-tinker.com] Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » HD-DVD Requires Digital Imprimatur: And all this also means that amateur film-makers won’t be able to distribute their own material on HD-DVD and you won’t be able to send Auntie Doris film of her grand-kids without permission from some clowns somewhere; presumably the imprimatur will have some sort of dollar value attatched?

[Digitaltechlife.com] Digital Tech Life: Download of the week: Mac .VLC Player - the best media player around for both Mac and the PC”¦plays a .

[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Get real, from a manufacturing point of view - a CD (and DVD) being a pressed disc cost pennies (sometimes less than even one penny) to manufacture. Hard drives (and flash memory I might add) cost substantially more to manufacturer, and the lowest rung (in your example the $10 keyfob, be it 32MB or 2GB whenever we are in time) is often sold to consumers at such prices as a means to clear out warehouses, and not at a profit (I have a friend who designs flash and DRAM and they keep making bigger chips, because only their highest end really break even and make them profits, their lower offerings they want to get rid of ASAP because of the financial drain they are).