Into The Woods - Digital Theatre Preorder — Page 4

^ They did the same thing for me. It works fine, but it a little choppy at times. The quality is not quite as crystal clear as I'm sure the HD will be, but it's better than nothing!

I just got around to watching it with VOD. As soon as I purchased the VOD option I was able to watch instantly and it never stopped to buffer or anything! It ran extremely smooth but I just would have preferred the HD quality.

Well.... I absolutely LOVED it. The direction, the choreography, the sets, and costumes, were all very innovative and worked wonderfully. The direction was so inspiring! My only issues were the actor playing The Baker ( Mark Hadfield) who just wasn't up to par vocally for Stephen Sondheim music and who I frankly just didn't connect with. My other issue was Cinderella at first; but as the show progressed I grew to like Helen Dallimore in the role. She kind of reminded me of Amy Adams in a weird way as if Adams was a pot smoking-guitar playing- hipster. The stand outs for me were Jenna Russell ( because she's just freaking brilliant) Ben Scott as Jack, and Rapunzels Prince. Hilarious. Also, I've always loved Into the Woods being done in the UK with British Accents. I think Lapine's book works best with british humor and their way of line delivery. It was refreshing to see a production that didn't use basically the exact same beats placement as the OBC.

I was a little upset because this is a show I have ALWAYS wanted to direct but have never had the opportunity to do. I've had a clear vision for how I want to direct this for about 4 years, which is to use a boy as the narrator and end it pretty much the same way as this production did. I can't say for sure if I would have executed it as wonderfully as this production, but it works and it makes the Bakers Wife's Lyrics then going into Children will listen that much more powerful. I had chills.

All in all, I would say this was a FANTASTIC production and worth every cent to purchase it. Watch it.

Updated On: 4/3/11 at 01:51 PM

Just finished watching it on VOD, which they gave me access to because the download wasn't working. It was a wonderful production!

OK so has anyone--at least anyone not in the UK managed to get the HD version to work? I sent an email after buying it a day back but haven't even got a reply, boo... I did check out their info page and it said it should show how much of the HD has downloaded--but it seems not ANY of it has downloaded yet, and when I try to play it just does that DRM license, blank screen that's been detailed here...

Eric: Have you opened Preferences and double-clicked on the download address?

I really want to see the show as I've only heard good things about the production. It seems that the overall consensus is that the VOD option is working relatively well, so I'm probably going to go with that.

EricMontreal22- I was having the same problems as you, but everything works now. Once you have downloaded the player, you need to find wherever it is saved on your computer, and create a new folder (I called mine "Videos"). Then, on the Digital Theatre Player, you need to go to Preferences, click on Add, and then go through and double click on the new folder you've created wherever the player is saved. Once I had done this, all three of my videos started downloaded, and I can now relive this wonderful production. I hope that has helped.

Downloadables and streaming may be the future, but they certainly AREN'T the present. There's still so much to be worked out with the technology.

I will gladly hold onto my "hard copy" DVDs and Blu-ray Discs until they get everything worked out.

... which I predict will take a minimum ten years. There are bandwidth, legal, and consumer issues (privacy, anyone?) that won't untangle overnight.

I'm glad some of you are really trying to make this work. You're the Guinea pigs. The test audience.

But mass consumption of entertainment like this is a long way off.

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Yes, I was talking about managing large digital files like movies, not small "one off" files like songs. And you all are far more savvy than the average movie-watcher. Trust me.

Most can barely handle putting a disc into a player and getting it to work on their TV. That's a fact not a put-down. They still don't understand what those black bars are on the top and bottom of the screen, cutting into their picture, either.

I still predict a decade before people consider this "user friendly."

EDIT: The scariest part of this to me is the privacy issue with online movies and Amazon storage sites, etc. Do you really want them knowing what movies you have in your collection, how often you watch them, where you stop during playback, and how many times you watch a certain scene? They're already doing that with Kindle books. They are reporting to publishers how many times you read books, what page you stop on, and how often you read certain chapters.

No thanks.

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Updated On: 4/10/11 at 06:45 PM

I am in the same boat as many others, I downloaded the player and the HD version of Into the Woods, but it just says DRM license. What do you recommend I do?

Has anyone got this sorted yet?

I can honestly say they're working hard to fix this problem, since they keep using me as their guinea pig. They sent me a beta version of the Desktop Player, which allowed me to actually download the video, but there's a new error message that pops up for me. As soon as they figure this mess out, I'll let you guys know, if they don't get to do it first.