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Two terabyte drives are $100 or less now. Optical media is growing more irrelevant every day for most of us.
by dualboot 16y ago
Two terabyte drives are $100 or less now. Optical media is growing more irrelevant every day for most of us.
- jbarham 16y ago> Optical media is growing more irrelevant every day for most of us. The vast majority of people have neither the inclination nor the technical wherewithal to rip DVDs to disk. Until every DVD that Netflix stocks has a "Play" button next to it, DVDs are going to continue to be very relevant. And even then Netflix is very US-centric, only very recently expanding into Canada, not to mention the rest of the world.
- hugh3 16y agoUnless you actually want to, y'know, buy movies or something. In theory I could buy movies on iTunes, but I frankly don't trust anything I buy on iTunes to still work in ten years, whereas I'm pretty sure I'll still be able to get my Blu-Rays to play.
- dualboot 16y agoI would imagine it's just as cumbersome a process as playing a dvd, laserdisc, betamax, vhs is today. I agree that the state of marketplaces is not there yet but I also think that it won't stay this way for too much longer. I'm over physical media. Discs are messy, damage prone, and usually they just sit collecting dust. Don't get me wrong -- I had a great time collecting a massive amount of movies and I still spend at least 3 hours in a quality bookstore when I have the chance. BluRay adoption is very much why the format is doomed a laserdisc/betamax death. You're somewhat lucky though -- because the encryption is compromised fully so you'll be able to extract your data to a better format down the road.
- hugh3 16y agoI would imagine it's just as cumbersome a process as playing a dvd, laserdisc, betamax, vhs is today. You included DVD in that list? One of these things is not like the other... I think I have six devices in this room right now which can play a DVD. Piracy aside, what's the alternative to Blu-Ray? It's Apple or Apple, and an opportunity to have a file which plays only by the grace of Apple. No thanks.
- dualboot 16y agoYep, to play a dvd I have to get out of my chair and physically move things around. To play things I have stored digitally it's just a matter of using the remote to access thousands of movies/tv shows stored on my network.
- hugh3 16y agoTo play things I have stored digitally it's just a matter of using the remote to access thousands of movies/tv shows stored on my network How long did it take you to set all that up? Do you think a less technically inclined person is going to be able to set up something like that? Also, were all these thousands of movies and TV shows acquired legally? If not, it's hardly a solution for the average law-abiding person. If so... wow, that sounds really expensive!
- kamechan 16y agobut netflix doesn't ship me a two terabyte drive full of movies when i click a button on their website. and their so-called "HD" is only so-so. i'm guessing 480p.