Paramount signs pact with Kingston for other titles, also SD cards

[towergrove]

But not in HD though

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6704975.html

Paramount Digital Entertainment has signed a deal to deliver select movies on Kingston USB drives and SD cards.

The announcement comes after the studio quietly debuted Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Kingston USB drives.

Paramount offered the first Transformers on a USB drive given away to buyers of Dell netbooks in June, a Kingston spokesman said. Revenge of the Fallen, released last month, is being sold on Transformers-branded USB drives, available for $29.99 through Office Max stores nationwide.

To watch the movie, consumers plug the drive into their computer, and the USB drive must be connected to the computer for the movie to play, a Kingston spokesman said. The company is telling customers to save it as a backup on their computer in case they accidentally erase it from the USB drive while saving other things to the drive.

Kingston plans to sell other movies from Paramount on the drives and eventually on SD cards.

“As more and more movies are viewed on computers and other portable devices, having a relationship with Kingston will become increasingly important to Paramount for years to come,” PDE executive VP and general manager Alex Carloss said in a statement announcing the deal.

Paramount already has a deal with MOD Systems to sell movies through MOD kiosks that can be downloaded to SD drives for playback with compatible devices. Toshiba and MOD have announced a major push to make SD cards a standard storage device for digital movie downloads.

[Malanthius]

Originally Posted by towergrove

But not in HD though

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6704975.html

This is something I would love in the future. Imagine HD movies and the case is the size of a CD case or smaller. Players would be smaller or just built into the TV. Going to be awhile though.

[comixguru]

This explains the following. Paramount movies...

Xbox 360 Bundle With Star Trek And Transformers 2 Movies

According to the latest issue of trade publication The Future, Microsoft is readying two new Xbox 360 Elite bundles.

The supplement (included with this week's edition of MCV), features a page dedicated to the Xbox 360. Two thirds of the page focuses on the newly launched Sky Player for Xbox 360 and the Sky Sports and Entertainment Pack which offers a one month subscription to Sky and Sky Sports, a Media Remote and a three month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription card.

In the final third of the page is an ad for Xbox bundles, revealing the Star Trek and Transformers 2 packs.

The Star Trek bundle includes an Xbox 360 Elite plus Star Trek the movie on a Star Trek USB stick, 800 MS Points to download "Star Trek PDLC" and an additional black Wireless Controller.

The Transformers bundle includes an Xbox 360 Elite plus Transformers 2 the movie on a Bumblebee-styled USB stick, a copy of Transformers 2 The Game and an additional black Wireless Controller.

There's no indication of pricing or if the Xbox 360 Elite features the standard 120GB hard drive or the larger 250GB variety.

BTW, that's one movie or the other... not both in the same package.

[tonyb2]

Originally Posted by Malanthius

This is something I would love in the future. Imagine HD movies and the case is the size of a CD case or smaller. Players would be smaller or just built into the TV. Going to be awhile though.

blu ray, dvd or even vhs case size doesn't / didn't bother me

No interest in a in built player. They always end up competing on price to match the 'regular' tvs and make sacrifices somewhere.

Then again i've got no interest in receiving data on sd card, it seems a pricey alternative to optical or the more inconvenient option to appleTv. The worse of both worlds.

[BrianLSU]

"To watch the movie, consumers plug the drive into their computer, and the USB drive must be connected to the computer for the movie to play, a Kingston spokesman said."

Nice!! Nothing like huddling everyone around your computer screen to watch a good movie. This ranks up there with watching movies on a iPhone.

[ack_bak]

I don't really see this as anything more than a sales promotion to sell some Transformers-branded USB drives.

[TomSelleck]

$29.99 for a glorified digital copy. Give me a break Paramount. This is something that should be $9.99 at the max. This has failure written all over it. Backup your movies so you don't accidentally erase them...lol!

Though I do have to say I would prefer this being packaged in with my Blu-ray instead of the digital copy we are getting now.

[JAC35]

Interesting idea. Any other word on how wide the availability is or the specs of the digital file? Is the digital file locked to the memory stick etc??

[Ray Von]

Originally Posted by JAC35

Interesting idea. Any other word on how wide the availability is or the specs of the digital file? Is the digital file locked to the memory stick etc??

It sounds like the DRM is on the stick - going on the article you can copy the movie off, but you have to have the stick connected to play it. I'd imagine the DRM will be on a normally inaccesible area of the stick, like CPRM on SD, so reformatting doesnt mean you lose your movie.

Ray Von

[JAC35]

This is more in the digital copy space than in Blu-ray. I could see them attaching them to the Blu-ray case rather than including a digital copy on a disc. Too bad about the DRM though it's probably going to be a pain.