Portable Music and Movie Purchases
By
Staten Island, NY Posted: 3/7/2016 1:00:00 AM
When you buy something digital, it should be yours to use on whatever platform you like.
When it comes to digital media, the concept of "ownership" no longer means what it used to be. As the demand for digital media continues to grow, companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart are all investing heavily in building platforms to sell digital media. The question is... who owns it?
Before the digital revolution, you went to a store and purchased your copy of a book, magazine, movie or record. It was a simple transaction. As soon as you left the store, you could do whatever you wanted to with your purchase. It was your copy.
Unfortunately, buying a digital copy of your favorite media is an entirely different experience. For example, if you buy a digital version of a book from Amazon, it's designed to work inside their "Kindle" platform, so you can only access it using their devices or software. However, there are competing platforms like Barnes and Noble's Nook, Apple's iBooks, and Google's Play Store that sell books, and you can't read books from one platform on another.
Thankfully, they make a Kindle reader for just about every platform, but it's still a pain in the neck when you look for a book, but can't remember which system you used to buy it.
Movies are a bigger problem, because unlike books, many of the platforms are tied each companies hardware.
This means that if you purchase a movie from Apple, you can't play it on a Non-Apple device like a Roku or Kindle Fire. Conversely, if you buy a movie from Amazon, you can't play it on Apple TV. That's not right.
I ran into this problem the other day, when I decided to pre-order Star Wars, The Force Awakens. I originally ordered it from Apple, then I realized I couldn't play it in every room in my house. I ended up buying it from VuDu which is from Walmart. Although you can't play VuDu movies on Apple TV, at least I had a VuDu App in every room... so that's what I needed up buying.
The main thing is that when you purchase digital media, you should be able to play it on any platform, just like the old days.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
(Reply N/A) (Edit Topic N/A)
(Like Topic N/A) [0 ] 5970 Views
Related Posts
Android(18)Digital Rights(3)iOS(87)Media(22)Movies(44)
Top 25 Posts
* Note: The ideas on "Idea of the Day" were posted without any formal research into existing inventions.
In some cases, patents may already exist for these ideas, in other cases, there may not be any existing patents and you are free to develop and explore the viability of developing and patenting the ideas.
The authors make no claim that any of the ideas are safe, practical, or suitable for any particular purpose. You are responsible for the results of trying, developing, patenting or using any of the ideas on this site.
For some people, our ideas are just an interesting read, but our goal is to encourage you to take action. If you see an idea that you like, do something with it... Take action.
- Joe
Idea of the Day!
on...