autopilot;323001 Wrote: > I would say at least another 5 years before we see a truly significant > reduction in optical media for movies (at least enough to qualify as > dead) and a mass mainstream move to streaming. Of course it will be > dead one day, everything is, but declaring DVD/BR dead now is massively > jumping the gun IMO.
I'm picking up what your laying down autopilot. But in the grand scheme of things 5 years is like... tomorrow. Let me put it this way... would you start to replace your treasured DVD collection with BRD at $20 a pop if you really believed that it was going to be phased out in 5 years? Granted... TODAY there is really no single (DRM free) solution to digital movie purchases to hang your hat on. Until then I'm going to keep ripping the DVD's i have and renting HD via Apple TV, or just using the HD-TIVO to get my fix. Maybe i should just read more (since i have a gadget for that too - KINDLE :) -- jharo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jharo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50035 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
