Hi All,
A couple of months ago we were talking to an equipment vendor about redoing a
couple of our classrooms (upgrading from Extron, or something like that) and we
were telling him that we'd still need to be able to play VHS and laser discs,
to which he replied, "No you won't, in 5 years everything will be streaming."
All eyes turned to me, probably just to see how red I would get. Not
understanding the needs and mission of your client is one thing, but
contradicting them in another. "Just how do you suppose we'll get our 16,000
VHS tapes streaming?" "Why do you even have them anymore? Can't you just
digitize them?" I started to tell him about how the mission of libraries is
different from the commercial sector, and how there are copyright restrictions,
and besides it would take 15 years etc... but then I realized that we weren't
going to buy anything from this man so why waste my time.
Anyway...
I hear this so often ("In 5 years everything will be streaming") and I wonder
how others feel about this notion. Do you think it's true, and if not how do
you respond?
Cheers,
Matt
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Matt Ball
Media Services Librarian
University of Virginia
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