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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
I can't say I like the resign at all. Maybe it's just because Is still buy DVDs but I don't see the point of DRM free movies. If there's a market for that fine. But couldn't the movies be on a sister site? I like coming here to buy games. I'd rather not be nagged to buy movies. Thanks.
Posted August 27, 2014
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phaolo: Mm.. I've just noticed that GOG uses MP4 instead of MKV and X264 instead of the more compact X265.
4Gb for 80min at 720p seems a bit too much for me O_o
I prefer MKV also.
Posted August 27, 2014
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bernstein82: while you're at it:

offer audiobooks (fantasy/scifi) without drm for about <=$15

then i can finally quit audible & it's ugly drm.
have you ever tried Downpour? It offers DRM free audiobooks.

Here is the link, http://www.downpour.com/subscription/purchase/ . I've had a good experience with it. The catalog has included everything I've wanted, although overall it is a smaller catalog then audible.com offers of course. But as said, it's DRM free and I thought the subscription options were comparable to audible.com. Downpour has regular sales as well. Worth trying in my opinion.

that said I am cautiously in favor of DRM free audiobooks and ebooks on GOG, subject to how this movies thing works out. I would think they already had their hands full negotiating more games into their catalog and I would think negotiating for DRM free movies will only add a whole new layer of difficulty. So hopefully this doesn't detract from their ability to offer more games.

There are a few from the 90's and early 2000's I'm still hoping will show up someday. But I am willing to wait and see what kind of movies they are able to get and whether it affects their games releases or not. Hopefully they have the service and people they need to back up their ambitions.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by WalterwickJack
Posted August 27, 2014
I think it is great opportunity for the independent authors to publish their works. BTW is there any chance to get here someday AVGN - The movie?
Posted August 27, 2014
Matroska video seems the most versatile video container right now, because almost all kind of A/V stream formats can be used to fill it.
just compare competing containers on this wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats
Post edited August 27, 2014 by jorlin
Posted August 27, 2014
I haven't bothered using Netflix, or any other commercial Internet based movie service until now, for one simple reason:

The movies can only be streamed, and not stored locally - I'm glad gog is trying to provide an hopefully viable alternative to that.
Posted August 27, 2014
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tjg1: I think it is great opportunity for the independent authors to publish their works. BTW is there any chance to get here someday AVGN - The movie?
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/movies
Posted August 27, 2014
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mrking58: I don't see this being that successful since we do live the age of Netflix.
Netflix for the throwaway movies and TV-series you want to see only once. GOG.com for those which are keepers.

Same as with Spotify, or free radio: yeah you hear all kinds of music from them, but they don't mean I wouldn't want to buy some music for keeping. They are for a bit different purposes.

Then again, I still haven't subscribed to Netflix, I watch so little TV nowadays (besides news) that I feel I'd pay monthly for something I very rarely use. Also for some reason Netflix here hid their catalog so nowadays I don't even know what I'd be subscribing for. Do you still have only the first one or two seasons of Breaking Bad? Hard to tell since they won't show it to me.
Posted August 27, 2014
I wish GOG would put more effort into bringing more good old games (LucasArts, anyone?) instead of shifting focus to completely unrelated areas. If you must do this, at least do it as a separate website. I have no interest in buying movies in digital format, and I don't want to read about movies when I visit GOG.
Posted August 27, 2014
Hmm, I like this idea so long as GOG remembers I come to GOG.com primarily for GAMES.

Bandcamp is awesome for music but as far as I know there is no DRM free service for movies, until now. I am not too impressed with the current line up but I like the idea.

Just remember GOG, we come here primarily for GAMES!
Posted August 27, 2014
OK, just bought Indie Game : SE to support you in this (and I already have it on Steam).

Good luck in this endaevour!

It is not a bad idea to push DRM Free in other parts of culture!
Posted August 27, 2014
I don't come to GOG looking for movies, and I never expected them to show up here. But I hope this works out for GOG. As long as it doesn't detract from the traditional business or muddle the site's identity, diversity is good. Above all else, please take care to keep the movie and game information distinct enough that I can tell what kind of product it is at a glance. For example, if game and movie releases keep sharing the same announcement list, indicate that it's a game or movie in the thumbnail.
Posted August 27, 2014
Instead of GOG, Good Old Games, putting movies on this site, especially new ones.
Why not make a sister site "Good Old Movies"? GOM.
You could have all sorts of classic and old movies, like Planet of the Apes! Or Triple Cross!
Posted August 27, 2014
This is some unexpected news! I'm personally excited with what this could bring us.
I'm still one that prefers to purchase and own movies, so services as NetFlix do not appeal to me. And any DRM-filled movie download plataform is a instant no-deal. So I tend to prefer purchasing Blu-Ray discs, so I can actually feel like I own my favorite movies in high quality and enjoy the bonus features. But it's not exactly cheap to buy BD here in Brazil, so more often than not I have to rely on importing, which can take a long time and has extra costs of it's own.

By offering high quality DRM-free digital movies, gog takes an important step in an area I feel is still lacking. And the idea of having bonus features such as track commentaries is something I very much appreciate (it's actually a big reason I still bother purchasing discs).

Understandingly, it seems strange for a lot of people, since it's not about games (only incidentally), but I believe gog is one of the most important players regarding the DRM-free market, so they pushing this can have important influence (in the long term) regarding movies distribution. Furthermore, I have no reason to believe gog will put any less effort in their bread and butter, games.

Side notes:

-The indie documentaries do appeal to me (I'm interested in all things indie and all things documentary), I thought it was a fairly decent startup catalog.

-The gog team should really make an effort to try and have as many subtitles as they can for each movie (like The Indie Game Movie has), it would be an important step for a website that appeals to people all over the world.

-Extra audio tracks, such as director's commentary, should optimally be incorporated as a second audio stream for easy access, instead of a separate file.

-I like to dream that gog eventually manages to get major anime contracts and we can finally have a place to easily and legitimately get stuff like the original Evangelion series and Yu Yu Hakusho (but yeah, it's a dream).
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Shimejibr
Posted August 27, 2014
Ballsy, I like it.
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