Twentieth Century Fox has announced a new service that will offer Fox movie downloads on Android devices as early as October. This is a first for the Google Android OS.
Due largely to the lack of playback and copy-protection technologies, Android has so far taken a backseat to Apple’s iPhone and the convenience of the iTunes store.
These issues should be addressed now that Google has acquired rights-management company Widevine.
Digital Trends points out that the service won’t enable downloading directly to phones: “Customers will need to initially buy a physical Blu-ray disc of a Fox movie. Afterward, they will be allowed to download a digital Android-friendly copy of the movie from Fox’s website to a computer, which can then be side loaded onto the Android device.”
Sounds like a smarter way to do Digital Copy. Presumably this will all be done within the UltraViolet ecosystem, soon… Blu-ray (AACS) Managed Copy is essentially obsolete, really. Which was predicted.
Benn CarrJuly 25, 2011 at 09:50am
Sounds like a smarter way to do Digital Copy. Presumably this will all be done within the UltraViolet ecosystem, soon… Blu-ray (AACS) Managed Copy is essentially obsolete, really. Which was predicted.
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Sounds like a smarter way to do Digital Copy. Presumably this will all be done within the UltraViolet ecosystem, soon… Blu-ray (AACS) Managed Copy is essentially obsolete, really. Which was predicted.
Sounds like a smarter way to do Digital Copy. Presumably this will all be done within the UltraViolet ecosystem, soon… Blu-ray (AACS) Managed Copy is essentially obsolete, really. Which was predicted.
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