inspired by Gizzy’s comments in another thread on Blu-ray.
Is there really a need for this technology as far as the movie content is concerned? Now that music is all transforming from CDs to hard drives and iPods, don’t you think in next few years all media will be delivered electronically on mainstream basis? Heck, I’m going to sell all my CDs and perhaps DVDs too. Hard disks are coming in smaller and smaller form with lots of space. Movie rentals and purchases will also be through downloading or via your cable provider so I can see at least physical rental of movies be through downloading instead of blockbustering.
You will have to wait for someone to invent hard drives as cheap, durable and disposable as CD's DVD's and other recordable media.
-Hard drives have moving parts and hence short running lives as compared to many other recordable media.
-Hard drives need their own power source to be able to extract data from them. Recordable media doesnt.
-If you want to make copies of data from a hard-drive to another hard-drive you know you need so much additional hardware. Compare that to copying cd's and dvd's
-One can say that Flash drives eliminate the problem of moving parts but they too arent safe from magnetic fields.
So basically as long as there is need for convenient long-term data/music/movie storage on cheap and disposable media, CD's DVD's Blu-ray will not go out of fashion. They might get replaced by similar media able to hold more data but the genre will remain.
Hard drives and flash drives can be considred good for short-term storage or media thats in transit.
well thats still one word, more o less 3 character's but I wonder you referring to ....
**digital restrictions management -> Sony
or
digital rights management. -> Toshiba and others
Same difference. Plus the fact that with the high definition content gaining popularity it will be impossible to control rentals/sales of movies and the cost of getting it to end users.
cheegum, good points. Although there are things like Tivo or DVR offered by cable companies that record hours of programming, dvd still offer compact storage medium for large amount of data. But I think CDs are definitely gonna go away with the iPods and mp3 player etc. I know many people who don't buy CDs anymore. They buy their music and music videos from iTunes store.