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Re: I keep hearing this, I don't believe it said by r81984:said by fifty nine:I keep hearing this about movies and now video games. I don't believe it. I think that physical media and game consoles will be around. Caps and overages, as well as broadband (lack of) availability in many places, including a moving car, won't allow this to happen. We may see games moving to a download model though, like the new PSP. The next movie and game format will be a hybrid of memory cards/downloading. Optical media is on its way out after DVDs. There's just one small wrinkle in that plan - Hollywood. They're not readily embracing downloads just yet, and a physical disc gives them a reason to charge the prices they do.
For example, I don't think anyone will pay $15 for a movie download, but they will pay $15 for a Blu-ray Disc. The disc itself costs pennies. |
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
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| Physical memory now costs pennies.
»www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/usb-···ngadget)
In a few years it will be just as cheap to sell a flash drives with movies on them. They can sell flash drives with movies on them or you could just stick your memory device into a movie juke box. Just think of a redbox that has every movie ever made and you never have to physically return the movie. You could also download movies over the internet directly to the flash drive.
Video players will be cheaper since all they need is basically a USB port or memory card port. They won't need any moving parts anymore.
Any device with a USB port could run the DRM software right off the flash drive and play the movie, from computer to DVRs to cable boxes or HDTV themselves. You could have a memory stick with an HDMI port on it. You could have $5 movie players.
A dab of heat dissipating glue on the circuit board and you have a water proof memory chip that won't crack like a DVD.
The possibilities are endless. Optical media will not last much longer.
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 DaMaGeINCThe Lan ManPremium
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kudos:2 | said by r81984: Optical media will not last much longer. Thats been true for years now........... |
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| said by DaMaGeINC:said by r81984: Optical media will not last much longer. Thats been true for years now........... And I'm betting it will be true for years to come. Optical media is still the best archival medium in the market today. Flash drives still have a limited lifespan (albeit a potentially long one... they will still eventually lose data). A CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray will retain the data in it as long as the disk is intact. Just because the ability to download and stream data is getting better doesn't mean tried and true physical technologies will simply go away. |
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