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MovieBeam Box
After a quiet delay, Disney is bringing back its MovieBeam box with backing from Cisco and Intel

Originally slated for last year, Disney announced that it would be developing a video box that would allow customers to play over-the-air broadcasts on-demand. The project was halted in April 2003 but now is back and under a new company called MovieBeam Inc. The box, using the same name, has been brought back and is on schedule for release in 2007.

MovieBeam will allow customers to rent movies and immediately watch them. The box ships preloaded with 100 titles. Unfortunately rented movies will be automatically deleted from the MovieBeam's internal hard drive 24 hours after rental. Disney says that rental prices will be on par with local video rental stores.

What has most people excited however is that Disney says MovieBeam will allow customers to buy movies through a service called Datacasting and then burn them onto DVD. Disney said that it is still working out the details on content protection and copyright issues but says that the ability to do this is coming. No details were given if MovieBeam will support Blu-ray or HD DVD.


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NO THANKS!
By Jackyl on 2/20/2006 2:37:18 PM , Rating: 2
No thanks Disney. Since these are downloaded to the device, it will probably be severely compressed MPEG4 at a reduced resolution. If it's not at least 720x480 MPEG2, or a complete bit-per-bit copy of the DVD, then I don't want it. I'd rather buy the DVD and rip it. Besides, if I pay monthly for a service to use this thing, I shouldn't have to pay extra to download and burn the movie. A monthly fee is enough.




RE: NO THANKS!
By Questar on 2/20/2006 4:27:26 PM , Rating: 2
You don't subscribe to any form of digital television do you?


Deja Vu?
By shortylickens on 2/20/2006 2:40:40 PM , Rating: 2
I'm glad they made the comment about it quitely coming back after a year. I thought I was having Deja Vu.
Isnt this supposed to use the special Diznee DVD's that disintegrate after five uses?




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