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binary solo on 13 September 2015
zero129 said:
mornelithe said:
Wright said:

Forgive my ignorance, but what the hell are "movie exclusives"?

A made-up, non-thing.  Is my best understanding of the situation.

The is no movie exclusives today but back when the HD-DVD vs BluRay war was going on some movies was exclusive to one platform or the other and before that the was the betamax vs vhs.

The format war is a reatively brief fight to the death, always has been. The only time 2 formats truly existed side-by side was in the music format with cassette tape and vinyl.

If you like you can think of the console war as also being a fight to the death, but it takes a lot longer, and because of the time scale of the war and the shortness of a generation when one console format dies another comes along thinking it can take the incumbent(s) out. Consider all of the console formats that have come and gone over the years. If they all still existed we'd have 7 or 8 gaming consoles to choose from. They other way to look at it is that Blu-ray and DVD are exclusive mediums, and in theory HD-DVD, minidisc, UMD and other formats exist in theory but no one has found an economic way of being able to create a competitive multi-format market except for last gen / current gen / new gen formats existing simultaneously for a period of time. 

The main point is, it's always a fight. So if you are expecting these companies to come together, hold hands and sing kumbaya then you're dreaming.

In any case, there is exclusivity in movies and TV in the broadcasting space. Some movies and TV shows are available on all broadcast formats. Others are available on just a few, others are available on just one. When there is more money to be made through exclusivity, t



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Michelasso on 13 September 2015
zero129 said:
Zkuq said:
This question shows some extreme ignorance about technology.

If similar technological limitations existed for movies, people would complain. And conversely, if such technological limitations didn't exist with gaming, people would complain.

What limitions are they??. even now most engines work with multi systems making porting between X1-PS4-PC (Leaving out the wiiU) pretty easy as is.

If the was one standed platform id imagine this would be even easier.. Also at some point we are going to get to where everything is just powerful enough to run everything.

Yeah. So easy that Batman: Arkham Knight on PC, the most powerful platform (!!),  was a mess. 

And no, it isn't just a matter of power. Unless you're talking about emulation. But still one would need to run the original OS in the virtual machine, and that is illegal (other than requiring an hack).

Regarding the "exclusive movies" I think Netflix has already some exclusive programming. Tv shows and even some films.



DonFerrari on 14 September 2015
binary solo said:
zero129 said:
mornelithe said:

A made-up, non-thing.  Is my best understanding of the situation.

The is no movie exclusives today but back when the HD-DVD vs BluRay war was going on some movies was exclusive to one platform or the other and before that the was the betamax vs vhs.

The format war is a reatively brief fight to the death, always has been. The only time 2 formats truly existed side-by side was in the music format with cassette tape and vinyl.

If you like you can think of the console war as also being a fight to the death, but it takes a lot longer, and because of the time scale of the war and the shortness of a generation when one console format dies another comes along thinking it can take the incumbent(s) out. Consider all of the console formats that have come and gone over the years. If they all still existed we'd have 7 or 8 gaming consoles to choose from. They other way to look at it is that Blu-ray and DVD are exclusive mediums, and in theory HD-DVD, minidisc, UMD and other formats exist in theory but no one has found an economic way of being able to create a competitive multi-format market except for last gen / current gen / new gen formats existing simultaneously for a period of time. 

The main point is, it's always a fight. So if you are expecting these companies to come together, hold hands and sing kumbaya then you're dreaming.

In any case, there is exclusivity in movies and TV in the broadcasting space. Some movies and TV shows are available on all broadcast formats. Others are available on just a few, others are available on just one. When there is more money to be made through exclusivity, t


You could say format war is attriction war with battle... console war is could war and we are just renewing troops every 5 or so years with some dictatorship falling amid it.



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archer9234 on 14 September 2015
mornelithe said:
zero129 said:
mornelithe said:

A made-up, non-thing.  Is my best understanding of the situation.

The is no movie exclusives today but back when the HD-DVD vs BluRay war was going on some movies was exclusive to one platform or the other and before that the was the betamax vs vhs.

Would need to see actual lists showing which movies were exclusive to Beta and which to VHS, likewise with Blu Ray vs HD-DVD, you're also referring to a format war, which is much, much, much different than a console hardware war.  The format war has far wider economic implications.  And one invariably dies, and never comes back except as the butt of jokes.

Not to metion a war that was started because the companies couldn't agree on a few areas. VS Nintendo, MS, Sony never even in a room designing systems in the first place.

Michelasso said:
zero129 said:
Zkuq said:
This question shows some extreme ignorance about technology.

If similar technological limitations existed for movies, people would complain. And conversely, if such technological limitations didn't exist with gaming, people would complain.

What limitions are they??. even now most engines work with multi systems making porting between X1-PS4-PC (Leaving out the wiiU) pretty easy as is.

If the was one standed platform id imagine this would be even easier.. Also at some point we are going to get to where everything is just powerful enough to run everything.

Yeah. So easy that Batman: Arkham Knight on PC, the most powerful platform (!!),  was a mess. 

And no, it isn't just a matter of power. Unless you're talking about emulation. But still one would need to run the original OS in the virtual machine, and that is illegal (other than requiring an hack).

Regarding the "exclusive movies" I think Netflix has already some exclusive programming. Tv shows and even some films.

I'd still argue that. Powers was also put on BD/DVD, as an example. It all depends on the licenses say. And things are put on other sources a lot quicker than a game do. Not to mention Netflix loses stuff, for the same reason. But you can still access these shows on billion devices. Not just one.