On Feb. 3, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is going to make an honest man of me. Finally I will be able to buy a legal DVD of one of my favorite movies, Carol Reed's 1959 Our Man in Havana. But there's still no rhyme or reason to what films are available in any digital form. If, for example, you happen to have a videotape player around, you can watch an old VHS version of The African Queen. But you can't buy it on DVD or download it from any of the Hollywood-sanctioned online services.rnThe basic problem is that Hollywood is attempting to preserve an analog business model in a digital age. The result is a crazy quilt of availability in different media, in different geographies, and at different times. Our Man in Havana turns up now and then on cable channels, and the DVD has been available from Sony in Britain since 2005. But that disk is coded so it only works in European "Zone 2" players, not in North America. All of this makes little sense in a world where digital copies, legal or otherwise, are freely available.
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机译：2月3日，Sony Pictures Home Entertainment将使我成为一个诚实的人。最后，我将能够购买我最喜欢的电影之一，卡罗尔·里德（Carol Reed）1959年的《我们的男人在哈瓦那》中的合法DVD。但是，对于以任何数字形式发行的电影，仍然没有押韵或理由。例如，如果您周围有一个录像带播放器，则可以观看旧版的VHS版本的The African Queen。但是您不能从DVD上购买它，也不能从好莱坞批准的任何在线服务中下载它。基本问题是好莱坞正试图在数字时代保持模拟商业模式。结果是在不同媒体，不同地理位置和不同时间疯狂地提供可用性。我们在哈瓦那的人不时出现在有线电视频道上，并且DVD于2005年在英国的索尼公司开始提供。但该磁盘已编码，因此仅适用于欧洲“ Zone 2”播放器，不适用于北美。在免费提供合法或合法数字副本的世界中，所有这些都毫无意义。
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