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YouTube in Discussions to Offer Movie Rentals From Major Studios

Very unlikely they'll have mobile rights, so don't expect this to appear on Android or the iPhone.

They will probably have a new player/video codec for this to the rest of the site anyway, since there's no way the studios will let them stream in Flash 7. None. Zip. Nada. I'd put money on SWF verfication and at least RMTPE being required, so that's Flash 9.015 at the very minimum.

Phazer
 
I hope they add the ability to purchase/rent and watch the movies on my iPhone/iPod from WiFi when I am not near a computer. That would be awesome. :):):) :apple:
(the same way that I can buy Tunes and Apps directly from my phone)

What would be super cool is if I can download a movie directly from my phone via WiFi while I am in the airport, switch the phone to airplane mode, and then watch the movie during the flight, and then 12 hours after I rented the movie, it auto-deletes.
 
Or you could go to Demonoid and d/l the DVD or increasingly commonly, BR, to your HD, gratis ;)

Oddly enough, the gf and I walked past a shop called Moviebank last night, looked like a DVD rental place. I nearly dropped dead - image going into a shop and renting a DVD. Filling in that little form and giving your credit card details, maybe even bring in 2 forms of ID.

How ancient is that? Well they're still alive, so I guess the market is there, this Youtube service is bound to do well also I guess. It may have to compete with the remodelled Piratebay however, if it comes to fruition, I hear it's being taken over and will see a subscription model added.
 
AidenShaw said:
So true. Don't worry about Redmond, the real evil empire is in Mountain View....
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What Apple?

A lot of people would respond Apple - with their control freak nature and "Nothing but Apple" eco systems, while rejecting applications from the AppStore due minor and inconsistent reasons - i..,e those Bubbles look too much like Apple own.
 
iphones4evry1 said:
I hope they add the ability to purchase/rent and watch the movies on my iPhone/iPod from WiFi when I am not near a computer. That would be awesome. :):):) :apple:
(the same way that I can buy Tunes and Apps directly from my phone)

What would be super cool is if I can download a movie directly from my phone via WiFi while I am in the airport, switch the phone to airplane mode, and then watch the movie during the flight, and then 12 hours after I rented the movie, it auto-deletes.
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What is stopping you from doing that today? You have just described the current iPhone rental functionality (except for the 12 hours part.... I think it's 24)
 
Who is going to want to pay $3.99 to rent a movie to watch on YouTube on their computer? I don't see this taking off. I think they need to rethink this. Maybe if they're thinking people with access to YouTube through set top boxes, but those people usually have access to other rental services with better quality. Just not seeing it.
 
No Way, why YOUTUBE... if anything they should start start a new server and site called THEYTUBE (corp., inc's., and ect)

I rent through iTunes on my macbook and have that hooked to my HDTV 720P. It works fine. I have wanted an :apple:TV for sometime but have been waiting for tangible media either BD/DVD to be able to play on it as well. Though that might happen this time, but MR says otherwise at this point...:rolleyes:
 
Stella said:
What Apple?

A lot of people would respond Apple - with their control freak nature and "Nothing but Apple" eco systems, while rejecting applications from the AppStore due minor and inconsistent reasons - i..,e those Bubbles look too much like Apple own.
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Excessive control over your own products/ecosystems is a totally different issue from expanding in to more and more markets.
 
business sense

jaw04005 said:
Wow. Google just wants to have their hand in every pie. Now, I'm even happier Schmidt left Apple's board.
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That's the nature of the beast!

ANY company on the stock market HAS to continually try to expand/improve it's business or shareholders stop buying.

This is probably a natural revolution. I don't think there's going to ever be the penetration of BLUE RAY DVD like DVD, the world will jump straight to digital files. Google would be stupid not to get into it.

There are potential (or vaporware?) technologies like RED RAY that if developed I think would change the face of the movie rental world.

I hope a company like Apple snaps it up and puts some of it's billions in cash reserves to develop/patent it then throw it into every mac/appletv.
 
I actually think ad-supported movies would be extremely popular. I know plenty of people who watch movies and tv shows with chinese subtitles that are split up into 8 different pieces across 4 different video sites, even though they could rent the movie for cheap on iTunes or just buy the episodes.

It's not that these people don't want to pay for things, but I think that people are reluctant to spend money renting a movie if they may end up not liking it, or into a tv show if they're only going to watch it once. [disclaimer: I'm talking about college students... it's not like we're rolling in money.] As far as I can tell, a lot of people prefer the difficulty of navigating flash video sites because they're not forced into spending any money.

I think this is why something like Hulu has been so popular. We already know Google can make watching movies online extremely easy, so as long as they don't include too many ads (and let's be honest, next to the mess of cable tv this shouldn't be too hard), then I think this will take off.
 
-this would explain the sudden appearance of ULTRA WIDE screens when you watch in HD (super panavision 2:75x1)


but I couldnt sit and watch a movie on my computer
and YT still has buffering problems on 5 min videos
 
Jamo12 said:
But nothing beats renting an actual DVD
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I really disagree with that! At least where I live, there are no RedBox options, and the most convenient DVD rental place has no organization at all for their movies. You seriously have to flip through hundreds of DVD cases looking for the specific movie you want, in the hopes that it's even there. Not having to do that again would be a welcome change!
 
when will people learn that nobody wants to pay $3.99 per movie everyone rather pay a subscription fee.


Now the first company that can get new releases and a huge movie database streaming w/ a subscription fee is golden.
 
puffnstuff said:
when will people learn that nobody wants to pay $3.99 per movie everyone rather pay a subscription fee.
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When will people learn that not everyone falls into the same hole!?!

I watch 1-2 movies per month, max. Give me the $/movie option.
 
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