Philbert
Banned
I vividly remember VHS tapes, the movie equivalent of 8 Tracks...big, magnetic tape easily deteriorated, and in the case of VHS) recordable at a lower quality level than commercial tapes.
We then moved on to discs for movies, DVDs. Yay.
Smaller and not bothered by sitting on top of a speaker or in a player for days or weeks...but don't touch the bottom or scratch it too much, no work any mo.
It's been a while since I have used my BluRay to play DVDs on my flatscreen...I have put my movies on 4 1/2 Terabytes of external HDDs and connected my laptop to my TV and Sound system.
I have around 600 or so loaded, and I just click on a file, do the thing, and watch a movie in fine resolution without moving off the couch. Bluray is my next project.
As I look at the shelves and piles of my hardcopy DVDs filling so much space, I can't see how the big studios can hold out much longer.
Several services are offering downloads by site subscription , like Vongo, and although they are tiny now, the writing is on the virtual wall.
******* downloads are crappy quality and *******, so I don't go there...but DVD sales are tanking big time, so the Mega giants will need a new source of revenue to keep Hollywood elites in **** and cash.
Of course, I don't know that much about the industry, but it seems inevitable that with more effort to keep downloads uncopyable and cheap, the Mega corps can eliminate hard discs; millions and millions of people around the world will just download to various devices and carry Spiderman around with them.
As of now, few can just buy a DVD and put it on an IPod or Cell phone; the digital downloads included in some new DVDs are limited, unless things have changed.
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We then moved on to discs for movies, DVDs. Yay.
Smaller and not bothered by sitting on top of a speaker or in a player for days or weeks...but don't touch the bottom or scratch it too much, no work any mo.
It's been a while since I have used my BluRay to play DVDs on my flatscreen...I have put my movies on 4 1/2 Terabytes of external HDDs and connected my laptop to my TV and Sound system.
I have around 600 or so loaded, and I just click on a file, do the thing, and watch a movie in fine resolution without moving off the couch. Bluray is my next project.
As I look at the shelves and piles of my hardcopy DVDs filling so much space, I can't see how the big studios can hold out much longer.
Several services are offering downloads by site subscription , like Vongo, and although they are tiny now, the writing is on the virtual wall.
******* downloads are crappy quality and *******, so I don't go there...but DVD sales are tanking big time, so the Mega giants will need a new source of revenue to keep Hollywood elites in **** and cash.
Of course, I don't know that much about the industry, but it seems inevitable that with more effort to keep downloads uncopyable and cheap, the Mega corps can eliminate hard discs; millions and millions of people around the world will just download to various devices and carry Spiderman around with them.
As of now, few can just buy a DVD and put it on an IPod or Cell phone; the digital downloads included in some new DVDs are limited, unless things have changed.
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