price is too steep.

$35,000 for just the player and then $500 for each rental, this is an option for the average joe? Get serious. Anyone who takes this option seriously will never be caught dead in a movie house. Movie houses are for the peasantry. EDIT: rental is not what one thinks when rental is heard...this is the per viewing price.

35k for player with hardware DRM :P 1080p24 Twice the tha sharpness of Blu-ray. Blu-ray video standard does not even set any requirements on sharpness. So wtf is with twice the sharpness? Also there is such thing as necessary amount of smoothing which is aplied to image in postprocessing phase to get rid of aliasing etc. Sharpness is not necessarily a great thing

I like going to watch movies. This week, I shall be enjoying Rogue One - much the same as I enjoyed The Force Awakens. I've decided to go to an old cinema for this, a cinema where I have watched many films over the years. Classic Neo-Gothic architecture and gallery seating for VIP tickets. Over the years I have watched Back to the Future, Die Hard, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Never Ending Story, Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day, Lethal Weapon I & II...the list is quite exhaustive! If there was a film in the 90's or 90's worth seeing, this is where I saw it - but I moved away for business, but have moved back now, and I like going there. Only difference regarding Rogue One is that I saw Force Awakens at an IMAX 3D, I don't think I will need to do that for Rogue One. There is something to be said, not just for the screen size, audio and super comfy mega seats - but watching a really good film with strangers and hearing their gasps and whoahs with mine. Star Trek Beyond was really great for that, when Bones is quizzing Spock about giving Uhura a necklace which doubles as a tracking device. The audience laughed a lot at that, as did I. BOT: Things I like about this. More movies. If you can strike the right balance of exposure and deals with Distributors, you will see more movies at lower prices at the cinema. This will/should open up more independent releases. Logic is: if the super-mega $1bill blockbuster is fading/failing at the cinema, they have an option to pull out in time before people realise it sucks. This is essentially trying to halve your marketing cost and I do get it, I really do. If It costs somewhere in the region of $100mill to market your POS lack/blockbuster in 6 months time, you can delete that cost and release your POS early, and ride the same marketing train as your cinema buzz. I strongly suspect this is what has happened: Movie Studios realised they were spending $100's if not $1,000's of millions on marketing movies and having to pay that money twice for cinema and home cinema releases is not good. Y'see, if a movie studio makes a POS, the amount of money they have to spend to get that 33% RT score to disappear becomes a very high figure. It's like trying to Ice-skate uphill...you can do it, but... So out of this realisation, they said "lets release the film after two weeks on home cinema, charge a tonne a cash for the 'privilege' and off-set the cost of marketing a film twice, and remove the chances people will find out the film is sucky" I get it. Only problem with this, is it has more than the potential to hurt content and make the movies even more of a churn for profit over content. It's spreadsheet film making and marketing thereof. Suicide Squad has got to be one of the worst examples of this in recent times, where a film gets re-re-re-re-edited with increasing amounts of music tracks to sub-due movie watchers into thinking something important is happening - yet the plot is BS. All about the trailer, and I do give kudos to Warner for making awesome trailers, but their films and understanding of how to make a good film are really lacking. Just like the Superman franchise...and the Batman franchise has been butchered due to recent movies. Seriously, I am shocked the Chris Nolan Batman films got made - genuine art-house graphic novels. Now? Total BS pop-corn fodder being churned out by marketing spreadsheet purveyors. I still reckon there exists the footage for Suicide Squad somewhere and a talented editor could put a decent cut of that film together, somehow. Summary; this reeks of movies studios who suck at making movies and are looking to lessen the cost of marketing their poor films twice. Once for cinema/theatrical, and again for home cinema.

Well I pay £16.90 a month for a cinema unlimited card. Meaning I can go as much as I want, to as many movies as I like, even included 3D movies at no extra cost too. I also get 10% off confectionery, and once you have been a member for a year you get 25% off confectionery. Also you can get upto 30% off food bills at certain restaurants here in the UK ranging from Indian, Italian, and Steak houses too. For £16.90 a month I will 100% take this over watching a movie at home. Nothing can beat the big screen experience.

Wow this is one hell of a deal, it's 13$ each time here in Canada 🙁

Well I pay £16.90 a month for a cinema unlimited card. Meaning I can go as much as I want, to as many movies as I like, even included 3D movies at no extra cost too. .

I had one of these for a year with cineworld, I found it wasn't worth it after like 10 months. For it to be worth it you needed to see, I think, 3.5 movies a month or so, except movies dont come out quite that often so you're stuck seeing trash films just to make up for the costs Nothing beats falling asleep at some nic cage movie at the cinema