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  • Walter-S_North_Carolina
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    Re: Ultraviolet's Attempt to Corner the Market

    Originally posted by nycomet View Post
    Although there have been great strides with UV, one has to wait and see what Disney will do. Will Disney ultimately jump on the UV bandwagon or will they just stay the course? Does it really matter? It seems that UV is forging ahead just fine without Disney.

    Despite Disney, more and more "GPs" (members of the General Public) are discovering the power and convenience of UV.

    Take a look at the list of upcoming blu-ray and DVD releases that include a UV digital copy. Recent "early" digital releases - some at very attractive prices - seem to be gaining traction. It is very possible that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift regarding (Blu-ray/DVD) disc verses digital. It reminds me of the Compact Disc to MP3 revolution.

    It's a very exciting time for those of us who have already embraced digital movies / TV files and are avid supporters and users of services such as Vudu.

    Mr. nycomet,

    we are the early adoptors. I fear the secret has leaked out though.

    -Walter

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  • nycomet
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    Re: Ultraviolet's Attempt to Corner the Market

    Although there have been great strides with UV, one has to wait and see what Disney will do. Will Disney ultimately jump on the UV bandwagon or will they just stay the course? Does it really matter? It seems that UV is forging ahead just fine without Disney.

    Despite Disney, more and more "GPs" (members of the General Public) are discovering the power and convenience of UV.

    Take a look at the list of upcoming blu-ray and DVD releases that include a UV digital copy. Recent "early" digital releases - some at very attractive prices - seem to be gaining traction. It is very possible that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift regarding (Blu-ray/DVD) disc verses digital. It reminds me of the Compact Disc to MP3 revolution.

    It's a very exciting time for those of us who have already embraced digital movies / TV files and are avid supporters and users of services such as Vudu.

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  • echopulse
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    Re: Ultraviolet's Attempt to Corner the Market

    Interesting perspective from the author. He compares UV's 10 million accounts to iTunes 400 million. The iTunes music store opened 10 years ago. And they also sell movies, books, IOS apps, and TV shows. It's almost a requirement for anyone who owns an iPod, iPhone or iPad. That's why it has so many users. I would be willing to bet that a small fraction of those regularly buy movies from the store. He also notes that UV is changing the rules regarding Disc to Digital because it wasn't a popular program. I don't think that is the reason. At Home Disc to Digital was always part of the plan, I just don't think they were able to get it ready as early as they wanted to launch it.

    To truly gain mass marketshare, we need more stores to launch UV compatibilty.

    Amazon Instant
    LoveFilm
    XBox MarketPlace
    blinkbox
    Google Play

    With any 2 of these we will be unstoppable!

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  • Walter-S_North_Carolina
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    Re: Ultraviolet's Attempt to Corner the Market

    Originally posted by Jake View Post
    IMO that article is incorrect on most of its major details

    UltraViolet isn't a cloud storage service at all, it's just a rights locker that can be used by the actual "cloud" streaming services.

    And "at its core" it's in no way an attempt to "eliminate middlemen" - those middlemen are the ones selling (physical or digital) the content, streaming it, and building hardware and software to play it. Without agreement and cooperation of the "middlemen"/streaming services (for example, to stream content purchased from another service because it's in the UV locker), it would not exist...

    I personally feel Mr. Mumpower has a good understanding of what UV is. Also, the middle man he is referring to are the ones who facilitate the purchase of physical media. Those go away in a UV world and make consumer distro a more profitable process, since it has intrinsic economies associated with a digital medium.

    It is true the streaming providers like Vudu & Flixster could be considered "middlemen". However, these are simplistic when in comparision to the distro process of physical media.

    Does Vudu own a warehouse where tracker trailers full of newly minted optical disks arrive and need be subsequently trucked around to retail outlets? Are they concerned with fuel costs, interstate transport, retail shelf placement, etc....

    I do know you know the technology better then I and defer to you on it, but the big picture is movie studios are well served with a distro model where there are no tracker trailers involved and media is made available litterally at the speed of light.

    Here is a quote from it;
    "When a movie is released into theaters, exhibitors split the revenue with the distributor. When a movie is released on home video, revenue is shared with the store facilitating the transaction. A perfect digital distribution system, on the other hand, would have only the financial outlay for transactional expenses and digital storage/ & maintenance. "

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  • Jake
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    Re: Ultraviolet's Attempt to Corner the Market

    IMO that article is incorrect on most of its major details

    UltraViolet isn't a cloud storage service at all, it's just a rights locker that can be used by the actual "cloud" streaming services.

    And "at its core" it's in no way an attempt to "eliminate middlemen" - those middlemen are the ones selling (physical or digital) the content, streaming it, and building hardware and software to play it. Without agreement and cooperation of the "middlemen"/streaming services (for example, to stream content purchased from another service because it's in the UV locker), it would not exist...

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  • Ultraviolet's Attempt to Corner the Market

    I stumbled upon the below article.

    It speaks very well to the attempt in 2012 by Ultraviolet to become the presumptive choice for non-theatrical movie consumption.

    The article suggests their success has been erratic. I differ with this assessment. I believe they have accomplished the cornering of the market with Disney shutting down their Keychest, there is simply no one else besides Amazon and iTunes which are in the market.

    Both iTunes and Amazon do not have the footing Ultraviolet has at this point for cloud based distribution of consumer film industry media. After all, Ultraviolet is backed by movie studios. iTunes and Amazon are not.

    Therefore it is pretty easy to guess who will end up winning and now on the cusp of Q2 in 2013, I feel it can actually be said Ultraviolet has successfully cornered this market.


    CLICK HERE
    ~article by David Mumpower
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