Pat Farrell;270948 Wrote: > cparker wrote: > > Pat Farrell;270836 Wrote: > >> They will be delivered over the 'net. > >> Physical plastic disks are dead. As are players for them. > > > > Very unlikely.. physical media is here to stay. > > > > The convenience of the plastic disc is far higher than the gauntlet > of > > bandwith limits, crashing hard disks, file corruption and DRM. > > This is exactly what was said about music CDs in 1999 or so. > All of us SqueezeBox users know that physical music disks are > irrelevant. > > > > How exactly would you take your movie collection on holiday, in the > > car, in a plane etc. Yes you could download first for new content > but > > then you have to plan ahead (and ensure it can play offline) and for > > your existing content you have to find the time to rip them. > > To make this happen, all we need is to move from the equivalent of > dialup, which most folks had in 1999, to the equivalent of broadband. > The reason so many folks used low rate MP3 was that relative to dialup, > > it was faster. With modern broadband (even as dead slow as it is in the > > US) you can do real time RedBook. > > The idea of online and offline is going to die. You want a movie or TV > > show, you watch it from some server somewhere. > > I have no idea how it will be billed. Perhaps like HBO, where $20 a > month buys all of their movies for a month. > > I'm not claiming that plastic disks will go away by the end of this > week. But by the end of the next decade, for sure.
The problem I see (maybe have is a more suitable word) is that all of the mainstream online music retailers sell lossy music. I know that with my physical media and a lossless encoder I have on my digital audio player a 100% identical copy to what's on my physical media. The industry triumph right now is just getting DRM to be relaxed/dropped. Don't forget the uproar over companies like AT&T (SBC) wanting to charge content providers like Google for "pushing" their content over the network. Now we are facing bandwidth throttling on P2P activity, but what's to say they won't extend it to media content that they aren't the source of? IIRC there was mention of a QOS fee to make sure such content is delivered reliably. This makes me think of the cellco "walled garden" approach where the only content you get comes from them. An extreme example, but you get the general idea. Until I can buy lossless, DRM free music from mainstream outlets and not worry about my ISP or their connection choking my content because they think I need to pay them more for the privelige I will continue to buy physical media. The masses, however, think that mp3 is the be all and end all of digital formats, are probably totally unaware anything else (and better) exists and will embrace the concept of 100% digital distribution quite readily. I think I'm just getting old and set in my ways. -- 4mula1 SlimServer 6.5.4 + Solaris 10 x86: Because Linux would've been too easy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43609 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
