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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 28, 2014
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DebugMode: Hmm... This could work for analog transfers and maybe animation to some degree. Life action is problematic. At least I'd assume that there are no devices in the indie or AA studio range that use lossless formats for recording. So it would be lossy no matter what.
The video codec wars aren't really that pretty because most of the time, the only one that matters is the king. Used to be .mpg, then .avi, now .mp4

Most cheaper productions are using digital cameras that encode into whatever codec is hardware accelerated. And they're only have hardware acceleration for said format because of popularity or in-house patent issues. Maybe the upload wizard flow thing would start asking for lossless then move to lossy if there's none. It could even mark the pure source for the user. Sort of sucks that it'd be hard to achieve what bandcamp has already.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by Valoric
Posted August 28, 2014
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DebugMode: Someone has to start though. GOG and VHX are doing a good job right now. I'd actually want them to cooperate. VHX offers movies, but has no storefront. GOG has a storefront, but barely movies.
That's actually kinda interesting to think about. One of the things that gives steam so much power is it's network of allies. Maybe something like Vodo.net needs to become the humblebundle (or HB starts supporting GOG) of indie movies to be redeemable through GOG. Maybe gog needs 3rd redistributers that sell GOG codes (much like steam). Co-operation would certainly empower and reinforce the DRMFree movement.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by Valoric
Posted August 28, 2014
Hello,

It's a nice move to introduce Movies to the glorious DRM-free movement, but, when I launch the movie, it seems some lack of subtitles, even the English one, and it's the case for a free one: "The Art of Playing" .

As myself a non-native English speaker, I'm able to read easily English, but there's no way I can follow an entier movie without some text, and it could have been worse if I was deaf of course.

So I've got one request:
Could you at least make the English subtitle a requirement to put a Movie in your catalog?

Making a movie accessible is totally in the definition of what should be a DRM-free movie. (weird sentence, I agreed :d).

Thank you.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by jibaycay
Posted August 28, 2014
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phaolo: [...] Anyway, I just hope that GOG will use MKV + X265[...]
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DebugMode: They're most likely completely identical to the creator provided files. You might argue with my opinion, but I think that it's best to leave them as untouched as possible.
No no, I didn't imply reencoding by GOG. A required format for submissions wouldn't be bad, however.

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phaolo: I just hope that GOG will use MKV + X265
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Sude: It's not worth it until x265 gets psy optimizations or the picture quality otherwise beats x264.
Ok true, x265 isn't completed yet, but I saw some tests and they seem already better at the same bitrate and need a lot less space!
Post edited August 28, 2014 by phaolo
Posted August 28, 2014
Since now we aren't limited by physical media, it would be great to have The Hobbit movies in 3D at 48fps and at a massive resolution (it was recorded at 5k). I don't care if each movie is 300GB or whatever, as long as there are smaller options for everyone.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by masterotaku
Posted August 28, 2014
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GOG.com: That's it. GOG.com Movies is a go, time to get some popcorn!
Luv it, but want more :)
Posted August 28, 2014
My initial thought is that I hope Gog will FINALLY restructure the forum. It's already messy, I don't want to wade through several extra miles of movie threads to find games threads.
Posted August 28, 2014
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Announcement: My initial thought is that I hope Gog will FINALLY restructure the forum. It's already messy, I don't want to wade through several extra miles of movie threads to find games threads.
This so much.
Also, was wery suprised when i saw the new site with movies
Not sure what i feel about it yet.
I guess il wiat and see but i thougth galaxy was due out first.
Posted August 28, 2014
It's probably been asked before but who exactly is GoG competing with here? Itunes? Amazon? Streaming services like Roku or even Netflix?
Posted August 28, 2014
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synfresh: It's probably been asked before but who exactly is GoG competing with here? Itunes? Amazon? Streaming services like Roku or even Netflix?
This is my main concern. I don't know what niche GOG is trying to serve here, or whom they are competing against. What's the revenue model here? What's the long-term profitability plan? Do you seriously think any major studio is going to sell their content DRM free on a Polish website for five bucks?

I worry this could be a sinkhole of funds and energy, and the rest of GOG could suffer. History is littered with companies who stepped outside of their area of expertise and it cost them dearly.

I mean, who's buying that horseshit they have up there right now? The movies there right now are clearly only placeholders intended to show that the delivery system physically works. It's a showcase not of content, but of technical capability, so they can show studios how the software works.

Even if major studios wanted to play, however, I don't see the benefit to having my movies hosted on GOG, when I already have a Blu-Ray/DVD player that comes with Netflix. That covers the two ways I want my movie product - physically, and electronically.
Posted August 28, 2014
Hmm.. Uninterested. Barely any French voiced will ever make it, I can tell.. And I just don't buy any movies, with all online services. Meh, GOG. Please repaint your sign in green & yellow soon, BTW.. :)
Posted August 28, 2014
lovin' it
Post edited August 28, 2014 by superstande
Posted August 28, 2014
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synfresh: It's probably been asked before but who exactly is GoG competing with here? Itunes? Amazon? Streaming services like Roku or even Netflix?
They aren't competing with anyone, they're trying to fill a practically non-existent niche.
Posted August 28, 2014
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synfresh: It's probably been asked before but who exactly is GoG competing with here? Itunes? Amazon? Streaming services like Roku or even Netflix?
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somberfox: They aren't competing with anyone, they're trying to fill a practically non-existent niche.
There's been a demand for DRM-Free movies? Especially in this era of streaming services?
Posted August 28, 2014
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synfresh: It's probably been asked before but who exactly is GoG competing with here? Itunes? Amazon? Streaming services like Roku or even Netflix?
I believe Valve are planning to offer movies, TV series, and music over Steam, so that's one competitor. Of course, they're also getting into the living room with the Steambox and Steam OS, making for a fitting place to experience such media.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by Maighstir
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