News - Tesco and Microsoft team up to bring "virtual DVD" experience to UK consumers

[HEXUS]

Silverlight-powered movie downloads coming soon to a Tesco near you.

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[miniyazz]

Hey that's great, more DRM technologies.. meaning that when I legally buy and download a film, I can't put it on my laptop, or on my ipod, or whatever. And they wonder why people download illegally.

[TheAnimus]

In fairness at least this is been offered in a more fidelity platform than others.

Compared to the DRM offerings of the iPod etc, its quite good.

However the idea of buying content I would prefer would be to use it everywhere, limitations like this would do little to encourage me, compressed video, not on my 1080p screen thanks.

[miniyazz]

In fairness at least this is been offered in a more fidelity platform than others.

Compared to the DRM offerings of the iPod etc, its quite good.

However the idea of buying content I would prefer would be to use it everywhere, limitations like this would do little to encourage me, compressed video, not on my 1080p screen thanks.

I suppose. And yes, tbh the people who will be using this will also likely have high-def screens..