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| The new format is dead, long live the new format! |
I will not buy a blue ray player because I see the same thing happening with movies. I have an HDMI cable running from my HD capable video card to my HDTV. The DVD's I do have, have been backed up on hard drive. Memory is so cheap. With cload computing, I won't even have to waste space on my personal drive and my library will be available wherever I happen to be. Netflix will stream on my computer, or over my computer through my HDMI cable to my TV, or over my Wii to my TV. Blockbuster is dead and FYE might be next.
I see a world where TVs are connected to the internet and physical copies of movies are just wasted space. Currently my DVD player is kind of sucky and makes the movies too dark, so I copy everything on to my hard drive and watch them using my computer over my TV. I don't have to pull out my DVD boxes and shuffle through cases to get what I want. I don't have to worry about the disc being dirty or scratched. I don't have to worry about a disc not being in its case or putting it back when I am done. So, Why would I spend money on a Bluray player?
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I think Tower Records going away had less to do with digital music and more to do with drug abuse and rampant employee theft, but I get your point.
Coincidentally, I also read today that someone's trying to make a documentary about Tower Records. http://sacrag.com/people/9193/kickstart-colin-hankss-tower-records-doc
As we've discussed in emails, I'm not very digital yet. I still do my DVDs even though I know it's a dying form. I buy used when I can because it's a good deal cheaper.
I don't want to spend the money on a good computer and then watch it slowly degrade into a buggy mess due to occasional viruses and constant updates from every program on my computer. The slow death of my computers over the years has been very irritating and I doubt necessary, but I don't know a whole lot about computers and I am digressing a bit.
I agree that blu-ray came out too close to the end of the format battles. Digital download will be it for the foreseeable future.
Down the line I think everyone’s PC will be their phone and they will dock into a IPAD or keyboard/monitor/peripheral station as they need it. I've already seen a commercial based on this premise. All TV and radio will eventually be internet based only.
That's all good with me. More choices and such. But here in the transitional times things look buggy and a pain in the butt to this future grumpy old man.
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