FINALY. You would nor believe how long I awaited for movies to be released on Flash drives. Think about it... Flash drives are reaching speeds of 30MB/s or more (faster than needed for blu-ray), Sizes are ever increasing, and the chance of data corruption is lover that getting your disk scratched. Plus 0 seek time. I think that is the future of movies.

Well its a start! I would much rather be able to get a Digital download in better quality and put it on what ever media I want.
Is it worth buying, probably not.

The thing is that the industry needs to push to a better format that doesn't involve disks, this should have happened with BlueRay( remember its just a container for the media itself). As everyone knows disks get ruined quick. I hope they can bring the costs down and the storage up to be able to get better quality.

I feel this is just a speck that we are seeing of the future of media shifting to digital distribution, the only ones holding the transition back are the companies in control of the current industry, as they have no place in the digital world. There old time practices of production and supply are obsolete in the world today and they know it. Same thing with the music Industry they are clawing at anyone willing to change the industry as they wont have all the pie anymore. Might be

why they are so inept to understanding the use of a bittorrent system for legal digital distro needs to change fast.

Love the idea, hate the price! $30 is way to much for a movie which isn't either on par or better than blu ray anyway, id rather just buy the blue ray copy. If they could make it the same price as a blu ray, and same quality or greater than maybe we got ourselves a deal..I think i still just love the dvds to much.

I think this is just a marketing gimmick either for fanatics or a 'fool and his money'. What is the 'physical' size of drive? My 8b verbatim tuff n tiny is the size of a thumbnail. Portability, memory density, and manufacturing costs are a big factor if usb movies are to survive beyond the 'neat idea' phase. Other than that everything else has been said.

I've been wondering when someone was going to start doing this. I imagined this happening pretty much as soon as the USB drive came out and it's taken this long for it to happen.

We'll just have to wait and see if it's any good.

I agree it is a superior medium, but there are a couple of issues.

The primary one is price (for now). To fit a *real* Bluray movie onto a flash drive, it needs to be 32GB. That's going to be one expensive movie. It's going to be several years before they become cheap enough to compete with made-for-pennies pressed optical discs.

The second reason is waste. I don't have any numbers, but polycarbonate and aluminum is abundant. Germanium, silicon, gallium etc.. that's used in flash drives is used like crazy already. Can we expect to keep up with demand? Flash prices sometimes go up because of 'shortages' and I wonder if replacing every new potential optical disc in the world with flash devices is a reasonable goal.

I still think digital distribution is the ultimate goal. An awesome pipe to every house with unlimited access to digital media based on whatever model they use to fund it.. be it subscription, ads and such. And perhaps in the not-so-distant future, instead of having your movies each on their own flash drives, you could have hundreds of them on a single flash instead.

$30 is a lot to pay for a novelty item such as these. Until flash memory space is large enough to accomodate high definition, and cheap enough to rival discs, they should hold off on releasing movies on flash

Agreed. I wouldn't pay that much for something that wasn't HD. I'll be content with Blu-Ray until there is a more cost effective solution.

I got to agree with most, $30 for a standard def movie is steep. I can't say I'd be on board.

How would the flash drive be reusable? Does that mean you can download the movie from the flash drive onto your PC. But then your utilizing space on your hard drive unnecessarily as far as I'm concerned in return for just another flash drive.

Plus I think most people, aside from those who are tech savvy, don't have a DVD player with a USB port yet and some people including myself prefer to watch movies on my TV and not my PC.

Awesome, about time someone made a move to do away with freakin discs!

I can't see it catching on too quickly though, it's a massive change. From what I've seen in my 21 years of existance, unless the actual end product (in this case the movie) gets better in quality, the masses wont adopt it so quickly. For me, the price needs to come down, assuming $30 is about £20 (am I right??) that's still more than most Blu-Ray films, bring on the uber mass production of pen drives!!

Assuming you're using the right codec, you could fit a whole season dvd box set onto one of these drives. I'd pay for that.

this has to be the biggest looser marketing idea i've seen in ages,.. honestly what morons are in charge of this crap and WHY have they not been fired for sheer stupidity.

30 for a non-hd movie sucks.But a movie on a flash drive is the to go.

You can fit a very good quality movies into 4 GB, a lot of BD(blue ray disk) rips are only 2 GB and are still have awesome video and sound quality

Well, the 4gig flash drive is ok to begin with, and adding a movie on top of that would just be an added bonus to me! Well, aside from the fact that the movie, Transformers 2, was utter crap.

I think this would contribute to piracy. I think people would stick to dvds vs this considering how not everything has a usb.

Q. Would you pay $30 for a film stored on flash memory?
A. Nope. This may be a concept that's "before it's time". Will 8GB drives cost a $1 in bulk a couple of years from now? Will these sell at airports - definitely. Prices will come down, USB 3.0 is coming, this could be the next big thing .... it's just too early and too pricy for me.

How many flash drives am I going to have? It would be great for travel with but put my whole collection ...no but as an option yes, sounds cool. Will they be write protected?

Nah, $30 for SD movie is a no no, even if it's a 4GB drive. So what? I'm suppose to stack these up? Imagine having like 40 of theses, where are you suppose to store them? I like the discs, or maybe a new format? Like SD cards?

Movies on flash drives are like collectable items, these should be made in limited quantities and with some special USB drive, I mean there should be a special, custom made case for every Movie-On-A-USB-STICK, otherwise, it is just plain wrong to buy a USB with a movie, and if the movie is un-movable then the only reason for me to buy it would be that the USB would scream the movies name out loud with its design and shape....