When renting a movie the most common format would probably be DVD although that is being replaced by Blu-Ray. However, PortoMedia based in Ireland have created a new way of being able to watch movies and that is via a flash drive. PortoMedia's new kiosks called "Moviepoint" allow you to download from a library of 350 - 5000 titles. The process is simple in that you slide in your flash drive, select the movie and less then a minute later it is copied to your flash drive and ready to watch either on the move, or at home. By offering these types of "downloads" the kiosks will never be "out of stock" as data is just copied with no physical movement of products at the kiosk.
One of the main concerns raised by film studios about the venture was the provision of digital rights management (DRM) to protect the content and ensure it could not be copied illegally.
Portomedia marketing director Cathal Deavy said these worries were assuaged when the major US studios ratified Microsoft Windows DRM as a bona fide rights management solution in April 2006. "When that happened, it gave us the green light to go ahead and we knew we were protected . . . Windows DRM is on every laptop and PC, and once that happened we were in business," he said.
Trials have been running in Galway and if successful we could see movies ready for download on ATM type machines across Europe and the US.
Via: EverythingUSB
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