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DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | The Disc Is Dead...Sort Of. As a method of content delivery for smaller collections of data, the disc is dead. For larger ones, I'm not so sure. I suspect that, owing to its smaller size, folks are more comfortable with buying online delivery of content that's under a gig in size.
For larger items such as movies, video games, etc. I think that most consumers would prefer to purchase a physical disc: it saves bandwidth (assuming the consumer HAS the bandwidth to receive such a large file), HD space, etc. Ultimately, the final resting place of the content will be on a disc anyway (if for no reason other than as a back-up) so why not get it in that form to begin with? This doesn't even address the potential issues of game systems or other hardware that has issues playing a burned disc versus a pressed one. And for those small few that have Blu-Ray, then DOD becomes incredibly prohibitive (and yes, I know it's possible to get HD rips that are much smaller than a full disc, but we're talking about retail content and not after market manipulations of original content).
Note that this post is 100% Assumption Pure and I have no numbers to back up my speculations, so if my thoughts are at odds with any sales figures, feel free to adjust opinion accordingly...  | |
 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Desdinova:For larger items such as movies, video games, etc. I think that most consumers would prefer to purchase a physical disc: it saves bandwidth (assuming the consumer HAS the bandwidth to receive such a large file), HD space, etc. Ultimately, the final resting place of the content will be on a disc anyway (if for no reason other than as a back-up) so why not get it in that form to begin with? As far as music you can back it up on a thumbdrive pretty easy | |
DesdinovaPremium
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Gaithersburg, MD | I agree completely and a number of the artists I work with are heading that route for a number of financial (thumbdrives can be wiped and reused if the contents on it doesn't sell) and artistic reasons (a fan can buy an empty drive from the artist and have it filled with specific tracks, interviews, hi-res album art, etc.). Those artists I know that HAVEN'T looked into flash drives are usually interested when I suggest it to them.
But here's where it gets kinda interesting: speaking to fans I find that quite a few of them immediately burn the wave files onto a normal Red Book CD so they can lend it to friends, play it in their cars, etc. So it seems that even the cutting-edge folks sometimes drift back into older habits. | |
| Nothing about older habits. A solid, non-erasable media is still viable for music. Thumb drives are great, but as you said the data inside is volatile. When you buy or burn a CD it's there and it stays there. There is a lot to be said about knowing your favorite artist and your favorite album from them won't go bye-bye because of a computer glitch or human error. | | |
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Size is a serious factor, but so is ownership of media. With DRM and a very real question regarding what I can play it on, physical ownership of the CD, DVD or Blueray disk give me a lot of comfort.
If I can't burn the video or music to disk and play it on any machine, or watch it on any TV I don't want it. If I own the DVD I can watch it, rip it to the iPod, transfer it to my netbook, whatever. The same holds true with a CD, I like ripping to FLAC, doesn't play on my iPod, but my Cowon sees more use these days. I could in theory convert a 128Kbps drm encumbered aac file to Flac, but i don't think there is any reason to do so.
Also if for some reason all four copies of my music library are destroyed and my cd library survives (unlikely), 99% of my music could be recovered. I will have to check with Amazon.com on the rest.(Pepsi points)
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