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Originally Posted by Katsunami
It's what happens with movies all the time. A commercial movie has a bazillion warnings and a hundred trailers, and your bag of chips is empty when the movie finally starts. With a pirated version you just enter the DVD, hit play, and the movie starts.
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You don't need pirate editions, just a DVD player that lets you skip past the junk.
Plenty to be found that understand the player belongs to you, not the studio.
I favor Oppos myself (for the analog-out ports) but there's plenty others. It's not a new feature.
In the end it is consumers who decide what is desirable, tolerable, or unacceptable.
Mandatory ads? Not good.
Ability to skip ads? Worth a couple of bucks.
The point all proponents of "enhanced" products miss is that tacking on stuff only works if it is integral to the product in the eyes of the *customer*. Just because something semi-relevant can be inserted doesn't mean inserting it will delight *enough* customers to justify the investment. Especially if the "enhanced" product costs more.
We saw that with the transition from DVD to BD; Sony sold the movie studios on BluRay with the premise that the image quality would be so much better buyers would willingly pay up to $50 per movie. Twice what DVDs could command.
Wrong they were. The value proposition did not add up.
Instead, people bought upscaling DVD players or got by with their HDTV's scaler or streamed video; BD video *is* generally better but not $50 better. Eventually the studios priced the BD at a low enough premium to get consumers to buy.
So far, enhanced ebooks are still looking for a value proposition that works in the real world of paying customers as well as the worlds of academics and marketting hucksters.