[JediChris1138]

Now, you can get your favorite movie (I'm guessing, here, but I have a strong hunch) on a FLASH DRIVE:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10031329-1.html

Pretty cool, eh?


I wonder why they'd pick this particular movie as the first for a digital distribution via USB Flash?

[R2DEVO]

I just saw this on Engadget. Interesting to say the least. Here's the press release

[RavenEffect]

That's really weird! Also really cool, though. Still, why would they start releasing movies on Flash drives now? LOL! Kinda strange. That's so awesome, though, that it is almost worth getting just to show our Ghostbusters love and support. I wish they had actually by the logo on the Flash drive. That would have been awesome!

[Dreamstalker]

The Slashdot discussion is interesting...depending on how much this thing runs I might pick one up, if only to see how braindead the DRM is (does something need to be copied to your computer before viewing, etc).

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 03/1726205

[JediChris1138]

The cost I found was 29 pounds (no pounds symbol on my keyboard, sorry guys)

So it's going to be a little pricey - but I'd imagine if it comes stateside, it'll be closer to 20 bucks - consumers would scoff at anything else - especially when 2 gig drive + GB DVD = less than 20$

[Dreamstalker]

The price-point I'm finding is $60US. Given that 2GB flash drives can be had for ~$15, forcing people to pay a premium for one film + likely some nasty DRM (remember the Sony copy-protection rootkit?) is insane.

"Don't look at me, I think these people are completely nuts."

I'm willing to bet that the film is compressed so much that you'd be getting a lot of artifacting--someone says in the link I posted that the minimum file size to roll your own and remain at DVD quality is 3.2GB.

[JediChris1138]

This website lists the price as 29.99(pounds) :

http://www.slyck.com/story1756_Ghostbus ... USB_Memory

Thats like... 60 U.S. bucks and then some.

I might pass on this one, fella's - sorry!

/jcs

[Dreamstalker]

Yeah, I'm tempted to try making my own now.

[cyclotron]

Yeah, The keyfob doesn't even look all the exciting. Maybe if it was GB themed or something, but no way at that price.

[Spooky]

Man the mods are slacking...