Digital Video Quotes

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

I'm a huge DVD fan.

I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

I think that there are three incredible brands in the news and information space. I think ESPN owns sports; I think the Weather Channel owns weather, and I want CNN to own news and information in the global digital video space.

I love online video. I've been obsessed with it since day one.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game.

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.

Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on the disc, more bit rate.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003.

There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.

I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.