Comments on: Reformatting The Lamp

By: Carsten aka Roy/SAC

Carsten aka Roy/SAC — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:37:56 +0000

Make a special edition with the DVDs AND the USB Stick and some other stuff ..

Think of what they did for the LOTR movie series..
See http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Platinum-Extended-Collectors/dp/B0000A36J5

I hope that gives you some ideas hehe.

By: Riccardo Mori

Riccardo Mori — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:25:59 +0000

I like the idea. I think USB sticks are also more practical to send via mail. Whatever the medium you’ll eventually choose, I can’t wait to watch Get Lamp!

Cheers,
Rick

By: Michael Kohne

Michael Kohne — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:38:06 +0000

It would appear that you, Jason, are not the only one to think of distribution on USB sticks:

http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/APPLE_AND_EMI_TO_RELEASE/

Apple & EMI are putting out the Beatles catalog (with a bunch of digital extras) on a USB key. While this is obviously more of a collector’s item than a primary distribution mechanism, I don’t think it’s last we’ll see of this method of distribution.

By: Daniel Pharos

Daniel Pharos — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:24:38 +0000

>>>>Derek, I just spent some time doing research. All I can say is
>>>that there is something very wrong with what you’re buying or
>>>the way you’re storing these flash drives – I can’t find ANY
>>>citation of people talking about USB sticks lasting as little as a
>>>>year without them having been DOA or nearly DOA on initial usage.

I bought 4 USB sticks so far. 2 of them died in the first 3 days. The second of them died right as I was moving offices, I put everything on that USB stick, deleted everything on PC1, went over to the new office, USB stick dead. I had 2 technicians look at it, no go.

The 3rd stick is half a year old, it had a file corruption (write error) during a normal copy action. Content gone. I downloaded a tool to retrieve the partition, I played around with various functions of that tool for 3 hours, and gave up. I formatted the USB stick.

Some days later I had a write error again, I booted the PC, Windows was checking file sanity for over an hour, afterwords some files were 1KB in size.

The 4th stick, a Sony one, never made any trouble.

By: jas

jas — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:50:37 +0000

“A DVD or Blu-Ray basically lasts forever”

wrong, nothing lasts forever.

i say use the xvid or mkv. also it would take forever to write a movie on a usb stick in comparison to a dvd