I’m not even sure how long MQA took, but the audio world came around and developed a lossless format that runs on commodity hardware and features a wide selection of popular… sound.
Yeah, we’re boned.
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nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 weeks agoConsidering the movie industry is currently at a point where it’s even punishing paying customers with low-quality 720p for daring to use the “wrong” browser, I don’t think the industry will figure out that there’s a market out there for high quality drm-free media anytime soon.
sramder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
There’s something like Plex, but for rich people and with DRM.
You buy some kind of stupid expensive home theater appliance that’s basically just a NAS, and it downloads movie releases that the company licenses. I think it was a subscription service that includes basically all theatrical releases you might want to watch, even before blu-ray releases are out.
But you have to use their box, and it costs “fuck you” money.
So the general idea for high quality media that gets downloaded onto local hardware is out there, but not exactly peddled to middle class consumers or with open DRM.