Physical media is going to stay. More so for movies. 1. Bandwidth does not catch up fast enough. By the time you could download a Blu-ray disc fast enough, Sony will have Blu-ray Ultra with 2TB media supporting 4320p HD format.
2. Hard Disk size not catching up fast enough. A 500G drive could only store a dozen of movies. You also need to back up the hard drive otherwise you eventually lose it. 3. A typical movie you will watch it once every a few years. Why bother to use expensive online storage (Hard Disk) for it? 4. A typical movie will last about 2 hours, inserting a physical disc is not a incovenience. (Music is different, songs last 3-4min which would trigger a lot of disc swap.) 5. A lot of online movie purchase has "time limit". That is you can only watch it over a something like a 24-hour period. This is very wrong. It is more like rental only. When I buy I Blue-ray disc, I own it and can watch it later, give it to my friends or even sell it at a later day. It may even have investment value. (A lot of my LP collection could be sold for a price a lot higher than when I bought it.) 6. Physical media helps sales. A physical media on a shelf display in shops has advertising effect and could trigger more sales. -- Honva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Honva's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14948 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43609 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
