I'm with TPR. I think downloading music has become the prefered method of getting music. And I think the reason car stereos now have data ports for their MP3 players is because people prefer having one place to go to get their music. And I think people will prefer to have one place to get their video.
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When Netflix includes my library of DVDs in its streaming catalog, that will be my prefered method of watching movies. I'm constantly ripping and converting movies so they can be played on things other than my DVD player.
Hard copies of stuff will be around forever. Did you know they still hand out phone books to everyone? But the prefered method will be digital. The CD shelves at Best Buy have not shrunk (that I noticed anyway) over the years, but I can't tell you the last time we've bought a CD. The last physical song we've bought was an album on a micro-SD card. It even had the little tiny album cover art on it. That was copied into the MP3 library and put in a drawer.
Half of the movies watched at our house are soft copies. Granted, I'm just one person. But, it's VERY convenient (once they've been ripped/converted).
Hard copies of stuff will be around forever. Did you know they still hand out phone books to everyone? But the prefered method will be digital. The CD shelves at Best Buy have not shrunk (that I noticed anyway) over the years, but I can't tell you the last time we've bought a CD. The last physical song we've bought was an album on a micro-SD card. It even had the little tiny album cover art on it. That was copied into the MP3 library and put in a drawer.
Half of the movies watched at our house are soft copies. Granted, I'm just one person. But, it's VERY convenient (once they've been ripped/converted).
But they only recently decided to allow Apple (and others) to distibute via MP3. Kind of a catch 22 there. They only agreed because Apple got big enough to demand it.GORDON wrote:At least music has gotten smarter with the DRM... mp3 is becoming a standard format, so things ARE cross platform.
Movies haven't even begun to embrace "user friendly." Quite the opposite.
Speaking of DRM, did they ever start releasing updates for your Blu-ray player again, or are you just using you PS3 for them?
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
1. Yeah, I hated to admit Apple got the mp3 ball rolling across the industry.
2. Fuck Samsung, I stopped waiting and now just use the PS3. As it is Sony, and they invented the format, it will always be updated.
Also it loads BDs in about 4 seconds, which has to be a record for all players.
Very, very happy with the PS3. Was worth it even when it was $450.
2. Fuck Samsung, I stopped waiting and now just use the PS3. As it is Sony, and they invented the format, it will always be updated.
Also it loads BDs in about 4 seconds, which has to be a record for all players.
Very, very happy with the PS3. Was worth it even when it was $450.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
GORDON wrote:1. Yeah, I hated to admit Apple got the mp3 ball rolling across the industry.
Agreed, brother. Agreed.
2. Fuck Samsung, I stopped waiting and now just use the PS3. As it is Sony, and they invented the format, it will always be updated.
So in order to play the latest Blu-ray disks, you pretty much need an internet connection?
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"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
If you don't have internet somewhere in the house, you need to have update disks shipped from Samsung (or whatever manufacturer you have).Vince wrote:So in order to play the latest Blu-ray disks, you pretty much need an internet connection?2. Fuck Samsung, I stopped waiting and now just use the PS3. As it is Sony, and they invented the format, it will always be updated.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Vince wrote:I was thinking about that and Leisher's issue of not everyone having an Internet connection.
Didn't read the whole tread so this could have been brought up but I tend to lean towards gordons position just because when we had the digital TV crossover I would think to myself "Who in hell is still using rabbit ears and would be affected by this?". Then I would walk into best buy or walmart and there is a giant stack of digital converter boxes and people swarmed all around them.
Last year I drove past a video store that was still renting VHS.
There is just this giant chunk of the population who to me seems to be living in the stone age and too many will still be around to make TPRJones prediction come true.
I do think it will be common enough that downloading and digital version will seem like common place to those on this board but I don't know about the nation as a whole.