No more Blu Ray discs?

[Scrappydue]

http://www.kaleidescape.com

 

for the man with all the moolah in the world. i have seen this thing in action in a few 6 digit theaters. simply stunning. i was very interested until i saw the prices. but hey you may make a lot more money than me. 

[derrickdj1]

There are services that you can buy and store in the clound similar to Amazon music and I Tunes.  This will prevent to problem of more HD and be simpler in the long run.

[H-D Rider]

Still like to have the hard copy 

[JJkizak]

I believe when you purchase a BluRay disc it is not your property. You have purchased the right to use that property for your personal use and cannot use it to make money without the consent of all the people involved in the making of the disc/contents.

JJK

[oldred]

Copying a Bluray or DVD in any shape or form is Illegal...it does not matter if you legaly own a copy and store it.If you want a digital copy you must buy a digital copy...not make your own

[K5SS]

This article was written in 2012 but it has some relevant info to this discussion:

http://hometheaterreview.com/dune-hd-max-blu-raymedia-streaming-player-reviewed/

[mustang guy]

Many movies you own can be converted to VUDU. $2/title, BluRay supported. They don't support every title, but it gives you the ability to stream at HD or down to iPhone resolutions. That way you can have the bluray on a shelf somewhere, and watch it anywhere you want at any time.

Edited January 22, 2015 by mustang guy

[Travis In Austin]

The law copying a DVD or BlueRay disk is a bit in turmoil.  This is the best summery of the controversy I have come across.  

 

"The controversy became a major concern when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 passed into law. The DMCA was the ratification of two World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties, which amended the United States Copyright Law. Prior to 1998, Supreme Court decisions and laws passed by Congress were clear and consistent. Passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to bypass DRM on a CD or DVD for any reason. Hence, the common practice of changing one’s entertainment media from one format to another became prosecutable. However, The Family Movie Act, passed by Congress in 2005, allows DVD owners to edit content (which requires CSS decryption) such as offensive language and scenes from their DVD movies."

 

A bill was introduced in congress a couple of years ago to resolve all of this, but it went no where.  The copying part of it is not the problem, it is the bypassing of DRM.  This last summer the UK passed a law making it ok to copy DVDs for personal use.  Hopefully things will get clarified here as well since it is clear that it is very easy to do for legitimate purposes.

 

The making of a backup audio recording is still allowable under the "fair use" doctrine as far as I know.  Do you can record an lp to a CD to listen in your car, you can make your own cds from tracks of other cds that you own, and you can burn a copy of a cd as a back up.  You are allowed to sell CDs and DVDs (and records, but you are not allowed to rent records) under the "first sale" doctrine of copyright law.  

 

It is all complex and ever changing.  We need Gil to chime in here.

 

Travis