Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 05:36 pm

  Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Jul 16 2022 05:19 pm

 DM> When I was working at Broadcom, one of our device functions was a memory
 DM> card (e.g. SD Card) reader/writer, and the word from the marketing dept.
 DM> was that Hollywood was going to start distributing or renting movies on SD
 DM> Cards. I don't think that every transpired, but there were companies
 DM> definitely planning to do so.
 DM> https://www.michaelsinsight.com/2009/11/blockbuster-looks-to-distribute-mo
 DM> vies-on-sd-memory-cards.html 

 DM> In any case, I think they could've distributed DRM-movies on USB flash
 DM> drives or SD Card if they really wanted to.

Interesting..  I didn't realize the industry was close to doing that.

I've bought some movies on blu-ray & DVD that have a code where you can redeem an online digital streaming version.  I've noticed some of those let you download the movie locally, but the ones I've redeemed seem to be DRM-protected and only playable in the app it was downloaded with.

Nightfox

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