It's not clear what format or resolution it's going to be in, but Sony and PNY have just announced that they're teaming up to release one of the best movies ever, 1984's Ghostbusters, on a flash drive. That's the first full-length studio movie to go out this way, but knowing Sony, we're expecting a crazy proprietary format that only plays in a heavily DRM'd player. Even still, it's definitely a start -- and coupled with the plan to
stream Hancock exclusively to Bravia Internet Link owners, it certainly seems like the company is warming up to alternative forms of distribution. Now if we could just get some DRM-free HD content in a standardized format, we'd be all set, no?
Update: it's already available on
this UK site for £29, or about $60. Yeah, we'll stick to our VHS copy.
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posted September 3rd 2008 1:48PM
cause your an asshole!
-Dennis Leary
OMG SONY, how arrogant of you... weah weah weah
Mass hysteria!
"my name is 'Peck'"
Next will come the inevitable news that it only works in certain high-end overpriced Sony TVs with built in USB ports.
"THERE ARE NO OTHER FORMATS, ONLY SON'S PROPRIETARY DRM"
There is no Dana, only Zeul.
DRM-free HD content? You guys are smoking some high grade stuff...must be nice to work and do that at the same time..too bad you can't create content all by yourselves and give it away to the world..oh well one dream accomplished is enought...smoke on...Q
You're aware that the content on this web site is created by us all day and given to you for free, right?
Listen... do you smell something?
Lets say this USB stick represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning's sample, it would be a USB stick thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds. And DRM'ed.
That's a big USB stick.
Are you the Keymaster?
Yes! Actually I'm a friend of his, he asked me to meet him here.
"I want you inside me."
See what I did there?
The article stated that up to 12 hours of video play can fit on a PNY 2GB USB stick- so that works out to about 167MB/hour, or about a 200kb/sec video bitrate (assuming only 128kbps stereo audio); Isn't that about the same video quality as YouTube?
I assume Sony will be giving the movies away on new USB sticks...
Maybe they should just sell external UMD drives for laptops and distribute movies that way!
"""
Standard features of a PNY 2GB USB stick include 12 hours of video play, 33 hours of
music and 1080 pictures. This is all in addition to getting a preloaded movie on the USB
flash drive.”
"""
Read better boy. The addition of one, not 12 hours at that quality, thats refering to how much video it could possibly store.
what, spam, and your irrelevant comment?
Dude - get over yourself.
It's called self promotion - not spam.
i love the hypocrisy in your post. rich.
I just think it's funny.... a guy that has at least 5 posts per article, making up a total of over 3,500 posts to date calling someone else a spammer. Oh, you guys are great.
What Spam??
I had a longer comment but it didn't go through comment cop!
this is one step below the time babyface released his new album on mini disc, sure it was a promo, but what the hell?
"but knowing Sony, we're expecting a crazy proprietary format that only plays in a heavily DRM'd player"
You forgot to add "and will only be playable on Windows".
I love Ghostbusters!