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« #523 : 02-07-2009 10:53 »
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Ralph Snart

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« #529 : 02-14-2009 08:03 »
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I found this on Billy West's website.
The new Futurama DVD is coming out next week! I'm real excited about this and a little wistful that this is the 4th one. I heard they were "talking" about some new projects and if they do anything I'll be so psyched because this is hands down my favorite show.
I really wish Mr. West would ease up on his bashing of conservative Americans. I had to wade through a longwinded exposition on how stupid and backward I supposedly am just to get that bit of information.
Believe it or not, he and I got into a left vs right debate on his site and he was very pleasent and cordial to me; he even admonished a couple of users who were bashing me. Yeah, he's a typical Hollywood lefty but I can at least respect him because that how he views things and really feels. He has the utmost contempt for the Hollywood faux-liberals - he feels wishy-washy people are even worse than people from the right. And you have to admit, Dubya's reign wasn't anything for the neocons to be proud of.
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totalnerd undercanada

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« #542 : 02-17-2009 18:32 »
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I have to join in with the pirate debate here. I've got the four movies on my hard drive at the moment. Once I have the DVDs (I plan to buy them but a combination of laziness and cash flow problems means I haven't left my house during the daytime for over a week) I'll delete them as they'll no longer be needed. However, I know people whose only "contact" with the movies will be through their pirated/downloaded copy. They'll be quite happy to stick with their low-quality rip, no special features, no commentary, and no packaging. For me, part of the appeal of the genuine product is all of that "extra" stuff that comes with it. I like to own the DVD. I like to have the box, the bits that come with it, and the special features. I like to explore the product. Once I have watched something online or saved a torrent to watch later, I'm one of the people who are much more likely to want to go out and buy the thing itself. This makes me biased, of course, towards the side of the pirates. I think that if there were a way that people could download a file which could then only be watched once, maybe twice, it would be a powerful marketing tool for direct to DVD movies, and for television shows with upcoming releases. If it were a subscription service with a low monthly charge for access to a download database full of watch-then-delete or streaming content, I'd probably ditch my mobile phone in favour of it. Then again, I hate mobile phones. Mine is basically a watch with the added feature that it makes annoying noises every time somebody somewhere wants to bug me about something. But I digress. What I'd really like to see is films being sold on flash memory chips, which then go into a box which houses hundreds of them, along with albums, computer games, and all kinds of fun stuff. Then the box connects to your computer, and your computer forwards the signal to the TV. You could either buy a cheap version which interrupts broadcast every fifteen minutes to play some advertising, or a premium version which costs more but is uninterrupted and has special features. I'm thinking a couple of pounds for the cheap one, ten times that for premium. Advertisements could come from an online "bank" of thousands, with a fee for each one that you see being forwarded from the company to whoever owns the copyright on what you're watching. If only the content box can decrpyt the chips, then there's no more piracy to be bothered about, since it would be far more effort to pirate something than it would be worth. If anything that people now download was available on such chips, either from an online store or in the high street, then it would be almost as convenient to order it in than it is to search for and download it. Something like Futurama would probably benefit hugely from this type of arrangement. Lots of people would buy the cheap version, and thus the copyright owner would make a lot more money long-term from advertising revenue. The premium version would likely be bought by obsessives who want all the extras, meaning that the copyright owner makes a larger amount over the short term, meaning that they would be able to use that money to make new episodes or movies. Of course, this is just me thinking out of my ass. It'll probably never happen. 
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x.Bianca.x

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« #543 : 02-17-2009 22:48 »
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What I'd really like to see is films being sold on flash memory chips, which then go into a box which houses hundreds of them, along with albums, computer games, and all kinds of fun stuff. Then the box connects to your computer, and your computer forwards the signal to the TV. You could either buy a cheap version which interrupts broadcast every fifteen minutes to play some advertising, or a premium version which costs more but is uninterrupted and has special features.
Funny, for a few years I've been saying after the movie disk, it'll just be movies on flash disks. Also I think that the fact that some countries/people get to watch these movies before anyone else contributes to the pirate thing. If it was released on the same day, I'm sure less people will need to download the movie. People would still do it, but it would be much less people.
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JustNibblin

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« #547 : 02-25-2009 16:59 »
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Nice article here:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEjrYsjpvdUwms
David X. Cohen: For our science fans, we always try to include some kind of a challenge, some kind of a scientific reference that they have to decode. So we have a very very difficult one for our astrophysicists. I had an actual astrophysicist who is an old friend of mine, provide me with the data. There is a little secret towards the end of the movie, a very subtle visual, I don't want to give anything away, but it harkens back to something we did in the pilot. There was a real subtle secret thing that we stuck in the pilot that a lot of fans noticed and we've kind of done a related thing here at the end of this movie. We have, near the end of this, a spectacular finale where basically all of the people, all the characters we've ever used, assemble for the grand finale. There's this really tremendous crowd sequence with hundreds of monsters, robots, everybody that we've ever seen on Futurama and we really wanted to have the wrap-up of this, just in case. As it turned out, it was such a huge shot that the Korean animators, who were doing all the coloring and everything, they actually assessed a fine against the American animators, our animation studio Rough Draft in the L.A. area. We actually had to pay a fine, but we decided to keep it in there. Oh, of course, Zapp Brannigan is back and we couldn't do the last one without a big part for Zapp Brannigan. Paging SolyentOrange....paging SolyentOrange. I'll bite--what was he referring to in the pilot?
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