I am pretty happy with Blu-Ray all in all though the battle went on for so long that by the time the discs have become main stream It would be nice to have larger capacity discs (at least when using them for data). A size of 100gb+ would be nice for doing backups but still as it is, Blu-ray discs are easier for backup than having to use loads of DVDs.
I still like optical media for making backups which then get archived away. As regards the idea of not wanting to own movies, I think this is probably down to personal preference. I think that there are a great number I would want to own and have in my collection. There may be some which are ok to watch but I would not wish to own. My ideal movie service would work the same way that Steam works for games. I can use or install the client in different places. I log in and have access to everything which I own. It is my collection and it follows me. I don't have provisos as to where I watch my movies but accept the reasonable requirement that I cannot be logged in in more than one place at once (as with steam). I could go and visit someone and log in at their house if we wanted to watch something out of my collection. I can see a potential shortcoming in the scenario where having physical media, more than one movie can be watched at the same time out of my collection but the constraint to just be logged in in one place would probably not allow that. Some with families might have instances where the children want to watch one thing and the parents another. This might be sidestepped by having more than one account such as one for the Children with the children's movies in it and a separate one for the parents. I suppose that would be a policy issue rather than a legal one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
