In article <Xns9A48F3D58C4B9WeLovePOD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, POD {Ò¿Ó}
<DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Gnomus <gnomus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> once tried to test me. I ate their liver
> with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>
> > There is still some doubt about Blu-Ray taking over the mantle of DVD,
> > since so many people find DVD "good enough."
>
> The thing that gets me, is that the MP3 took over the music market, not
> the SACD/DVDA, but the poorer quality MP3 file. The audiophile appears
> to have died off, and the demand for high quality audio has all but gone
> underground.
>
> Now will the same thing happen to the TV/Film market?? will people be
> more than happy with a 700Mb DivX file rather than a 70Gb Blu-Ray.
> People tell me that VOD and movies over broadband is the future, but I
> just don't see it, or maybe I just don't want to see it, and that the
> generation lifespan of a music fan is far shorter than a movie fan, and
> maybe in 20 years all films will be streamed down you cable and the
> compression will be something else.
>
> But I think for the next decade at least, our generation will still be
> making the format choices and we'll still be wanting out tangable little
> media discs and so I see Blu-Ray replacing DVD, if only by the way that
> they'll stop making DVD, as they have stopped making 4:3 CRT TVs, and
> anyone buying a new player, will have to buy a Blu-Ray, and then they
> will just start buying the discs.
This is what I always say when people talk about the power of the
consumer: "It's up to us, with our purchasing power, to decide what
products we want!"
Yes, well, the companies can game the system to limit your choices.
And you'll remember it as, "Yeah, I chose to replace all my vinyl with
CDs!" And you'll never know how the record companies screwed with the
record stores so all they could carry was CDs, etc., etc., and of
course, etc.
In this case, all they have to do is stop manufacturing standard DVD
players, and within a decade or less everyone's machine will have
broken down and been replaced with a Blu-Ray machine. And then if it's
a choice between a Blu-Ray and DVD release, then, well, why NOT go with
the Blu-Ray? And eventually DVDs will be phased out...
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