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Posted August 27, 2014
Cause there's no business like show-business!

Our DRM-Free approach to digital distribution has been the foundation of GOG.com since day one and we're convinced it is now firmly rooted in the gaming industry landscape. More and more users start to expect and demand the digital content they paid for to be free from any kind of restrictive mechanisms that limit access to their collections and get in the way of enjoyment. We think this is a good time to take the next step in our quest to make digital entertainment better for everyone. Today we set out to spread our DRM-Free ideas across the movie industry! That's right: GOG.com now offers DRM-Free movies.

Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: "We love your ideas, but … we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk". DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it's gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That's quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and internet culture documentaries - all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer's heart. Now, what do we have in store for you?

- There's a whole new Movie Catalog for you to browse!
- All the movies we sell are priced at $5.99 (that's a launch promo price for a few of them), and we aim to have that as the main price point for most of our future releases
- Two of the movies - The Art of Playing and TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard are available for FREE, so that you can test our new movie distribution features
- Most of our movies are in Full HD 1080p quality, some in 720p. With those of you with limited bandwidth or download quota in mind, we also supply much lighter 576p versions.
- Apart from downloading your movies you have the option to watch them streaming online, right here on GOG.com
- GOG.com is famous for its bonus goodies - each movie will come with as many of them as we can muster
- You can expect subsequent movie releases each week

That's it. GOG.com Movies is a go, time to get some popcorn!
Posted August 27, 2014
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djdarko: Is there a separate library shelf for movies, or do they mix into the games?
There is. :)

edit: See right here.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Wurzelkraft
Posted August 27, 2014
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IAmSinistar: In all honesty I'd rather the movies were a separate sub-site. Seeing them mingled in with the games just junks it up for me.
I felt that way when Dotemu added mobile games, and those where at least games.
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djdarko: Is there a separate library shelf for movies, or do they mix into the games?
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Wurzelkraft: There is. :)

edit: See right here.
Thanks for posting that.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by jalister
Posted August 27, 2014
What kind of license do we have for these movies? Can I stick 40 people in a classroom and show it?
Posted August 27, 2014
Movies I'd like to see on gog.com as I believe they deserve a bit more spotlight:

Easier Said Than Done - a documentary on rallies (a kind of car racing) by Matt Johnston
PHD Movie - a movie based on Piled Higher and Deeper webcomic series
Posted August 27, 2014
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Rusty_Gunn: Every group has their Xtreme! members though, that just comes with the territory

I myself is a fan of FIM Pinkie Pie
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Elmofongo: How is it that Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Sym-Bionic Titan did not get this fandom?

Why I mentioned these cartoons in perticular? Well Lauren Faust who created MLP: FIM is the wife of Craig McCracken who he and Lauren helped made Powerpuff Girls and Foster's. Craig McCracken is also a close friend of Genndy Tartakovsky, my absolute favorite cartoonist, who both made Dexter's Laboratory and Genndy with his friend Paul Ruddish made on of my favorite cartoons Samurai Jack.

I feel so sorry for Genndy that his show Sym-Bionic Titan got canceled in its first season. The only show that felt like a classic Cartoon Network show.

So back to my original question, Why did these shows which had the same talent as Laruen Faust's did not became a big sensation?
As a fan of those shows as well, I couldn't say definitively why FIM was the one that EXPLODED & the others didn't at least to the same degree.
Posted August 27, 2014
A daring, courageous move which I fully support. I'm done with stacks of physical discs, and I don't want to subscribe to DRM-laden services where all the content I supposedly "own" can be taken away at the whim of some suit-clad executives.

However, as many others have pointed out, GOG.com needs to work on improving the selection. Game documentaries on a gaming website seemed a fitting way to begin, and there are a few interesting titles I'm going to purchase (to give some tangible support, if anything) but much more is needed to have any effect. GOG.com must aggressively target the indie market and secure some gems to display.

As for the lumbering media giants, at first they'll take no notice. Then they'll laugh at you, then they'll fight you... you know how it goes.

I'll be following this new initiative with benevolent interest and a credit card at the ready! :)
Posted August 27, 2014
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mareviq: Movies I'd like to see on gog.com as I believe they deserve a bit more spotlight:

Easier Said Than Done - a documentary on rallies (a kind of car racing) by Matt Johnston
PHD Movie - a movie based on Piled Higher and Deeper webcomic series
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/movies
Posted August 27, 2014
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Elmofongo: So back to my original question, Why did these shows which had the same talent as Laruen Faust's did not became a big sensation?
Controversy, is my guess. It is easy to point a finger at a bronie and yell "homosexual deviant!", causing strong feelings about the situation. That made fans uncomfortable and want a place to belong.

In addition to this, the Internet has matured a great deal since the late 90's, so people who like something could gather together. That made it easy for people to start talking to each other about the things that they like, so the things they produced would be talked about by their peers - so you have art, music, stories, and so forth being created. These are the ingredients for a lasting community.
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In any case, I recommend to not detest the fanbase - they are probably enjoying the rest of Lauren Faust's works, and may very well be key to promoting her Galaxy Girls project

Say, I wonder if CDProject would be interested in funding Galaxy Girls? That would certainly make some people pay attention to GOG.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Sabin_Stargem
Posted August 27, 2014
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GunKen: What kind of license do we have for these movies? Can I stick 40 people in a classroom and show it?
for teaching purposes, it depends on your countries fair use legislation, so it may not be the best example?
Posted August 27, 2014
This is totally unexpected... Course I won't complain too hard :P

Interesting price point at $6. Small and fair, considering that they don't have interactive or changing content. Honestly after a few years all shows dwindles down in their price, so this could open up for tens of thousands of movies or TV series... Actually honestly there's too much material to consume today :(

Me? I'm hoping for MASH and Gargoyles... Although those are series, I would insta-buy them vs getting them as individual seasons at Walmart where in total they try to swindle $200+ out of you for something I recorded on VHS years and years ago.
Posted August 27, 2014
Here's hoping you guys'll work on file compression.
8.2 GB for an 82 minutes long movie is pretty damn huge considering that I've downloaded movies at the same resolution that were twice as long and half as large in file size, and they had bloody FLAC audio. Also, you guys should switch to Matroska.
Anyways, good luck. I hope we'll get to see great movies on sale soon.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by DrKat
Posted August 27, 2014
Movies in 720p should not be bigger then 700-800mb. 1080p about 1.8Gb is normal. We don't need full bluray movies - since its a download service we need compressed movie formats.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Matruchus
Posted August 27, 2014
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Elmofongo: So back to my original question, Why did these shows which had the same talent as Laruen Faust's did not became a big sensation?
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Sabin_Stargem: Controversy, is my guess. It is easy to point a finger at a bronie and yell "homosexual deviant!", causing strong feelings about the situation. That made fans uncomfortable and want a place to belong.

In addition to this, the Internet has matured a great deal since the late 90's, so people who like something could gather together. That made it easy for people to start talking to each other about the things that they like, so the things they produced would be talked about by their peers - so you have art, music, stories, and so forth being created. These are the ingredients for a lasting community.
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In any case, I recommend to not detest the fanbase - they are probably enjoying the rest of Lauren Faust's works, and may very well be key to promoting her Galaxy Girls project

Say, I wonder if CDProject would be interested in funding Galaxy Girls? That would certainly make some people pay attention to GOG's movies...
I watched Powerpuff Girls when I was a kid and no one looked down on me think, "HA HA you like a show made for little girly girls :P"

Also I see Powerpuff Girls in the art style of this new show, but very flash looking.

It just looks like Powerpuff Girls meets Bratz though in first glance.
Posted August 27, 2014
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Matruchus: Movies in 720p should not be bigger then 700-800mb. 1080 about 1.8Gb is normal. We don't need full bluray movies - since its a download service we need compressed movie formats.
I'm on the opposite side of that. I stick with BluRay for the movies I really like. I see the difference between an 8GB 1080 and a 25GB 1080. Dropping that to 1.8GB is very noticeable to me.
Posted August 27, 2014
DRM-Free music, GO GO

Nice to see changes happening. I really look forward for to music join the board (there are some dfm-free places for this already).
Post edited August 27, 2014 by sbolokanov
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