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.
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