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HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - NewtonMP2100 - 04-13-2010
....or will.....with 'Star Trek' HARD drives......Seagate hard drive with a copy of the movie on it (as well as other movies)....
Paramount tests frontier with `Star Trek' drives
.... Paramount Pictures is exploring a new frontier by participating in an offer to sell Seagate Technology hard drives with a copy of the latest "Star Trek" movie and 20 other films already on board.
The one-month offer, which both companies on Monday called an industry first, would combine a 500-gigabyte hard drive with a free version of 2009's "Star Trek" for an online promotional price of $100. An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140.
The other movies distributed by Paramount, including "GI Joe," "Nacho Libre" and "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" come pre-loaded with a digital lock that requires a code that can be purchased online for $10 to $15 each. Even watching "Star Trek" requires registration.
The pre-loaded movies come with a Windows-based digital rights management system that prevents file sharing. They take up about 50 GB of the drive itself.
The special sale comes as Hollywood is struggling with falling DVD sales in the face of piracy and is looking for new ways to sell movies from its library.
Other companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have used heavy discounts on DVDs as a way to lure shoppers.
Both companies declined to say if they were taking a loss on the promotional price. Both could be using the offer as a way to lure buyers for other related products they're selling.
Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc., is selling its other movie titles, while Seagate Technology is selling a device that enables movies stored on hard drives to be played on television sets for $130.
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HARDer than you think.....?
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - Black - 04-13-2010
God, what a horrible, stupid, pointless idea.
Might as well just bring back Zip discs and put the movies on those.
A 500 GB hard drive for $140?
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - Doc - 04-13-2010
NewtonMP2100 wrote:
The one-month offer, which both companies on Monday called an industry first, would combine a 500-gigabyte hard drive with a free version of 2009's "Star Trek" for an online promotional price of $100. An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140.
Really?
They're putting the movies on the FreeAgent Go drive, which NewEgg sells for $99 and tosses in the $20 dock.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148478&cm_re=seagate_freeagent_go-_-22-148-478-_-Product
Not that it matters. The DRM makes it Windows-only.
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - Will Collier - 04-13-2010
That's Hollywood logic at its finest: "Hey, let's charge twice as much for the same item, but we'll put a bunch of our crap on it!"
Anybody who pays more than $70. max for an external 500GB hard drive is an idiot. I would guess that's a standard definition version of the movie (value: $9.99), to say nothing of all the DRM crap.
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - Doc - 04-13-2010
Will Collier wrote:
Anybody who pays more than $70. max for an external 500GB hard drive is an idiot. I would guess that's a standard definition version of the movie (value: $9.99), to say nothing of all the DRM crap.
It's a 2.5-inch drive in an enclosure. Those are usually a little more expensive.
The movies are HD in dimension, but compressed to death.
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - cbelt3 - 04-13-2010
Why do they STILL not 'get it'. Apple's "U2" iPod sold reasonably well, and included the ENTIRE discography of U2 to that point in time as part of the slightly higher purchase price.
Do something like THAT and this dog might hunt. BUT.. loading a hard drive with a bunch of DRM'ed to death crap that has to be 'bought separately'.....
Well, all I can say is that someone, somewhere will happily break the DRM / encryption, and then the drive is loaded with 'free movies'.
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - raz - 04-13-2010
cbelt3 wrote:
Why do they STILL not 'get it'. Apple's "U2" iPod sold reasonably well, and included the ENTIRE discography of U2 to that point in time as part of the slightly higher purchase price.
umm... no. It was a $50 additional download.
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - ztirffritz - 04-13-2010
raz wrote: umm... no. It was a $50 additional download.
True, it was $50 extra, but you received several hundred dollars worth of music (assuming 99ยข/track). And it was the ENTIRE collection plus bonus materials up to that point. If this were EVERY Trek Movie and TV show (all of the different versions - TOS, TNG, DS9, Enterprise..etc) then it might be equivalent)
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - cbelt3 - 04-13-2010
ztirffritz wrote:
If this were EVERY Trek Movie and TV show (all of the different versions - TOS, TNG, DS9, Enterprise..etc) then it might be equivalent)
THIS is the very definition of a "Nerdgasm"
Re: HARD times at Ridgemont High?!....'Star Trek' (Paramount) has fallen on HARD times.... - Joey Cupcakes - 04-13-2010
cbelt3 wrote: Do something like THAT and this dog might hunt. BUT.. loading a hard drive with a bunch of DRM'ed to death crap that has to be 'bought separately'.....
In this context, can't Nacho Libre be considered a virus?