Seriously, with HDD media falling in price daily, with capacities going up to 1TB, and with tiny solid-state flash drives munching through the GBs quick than a fire-sale, why am I looking for a new format?
I don't want physical disks for my films, I want virtual files that I can move from room to room, device to device, and if I was offered films for £3-£5 like this, I would buy everything that I could - and the physical cost of manufacturing the files would be, well, zero. The cost of distribution, over secure P2P would again be effectively zero, so me paying £3 would represent quite a margin to the studios (sod the distributors, they'll go the way of the music industry, kicking and screaming).
Obviously there needs to be alternatives to satisfy all markets but I've found the winning new format, and maybe, one day (it really should have been five years ago) the big boys will catch up, once they've finished throwing the DRM rattle out the cot.
So I got no interest in either format and I scratch my head over these multi-million-pound polished turds.
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Seriously, with HDD media falling in price daily, with capacities going up to 1TB, and with tiny solid-state flash drives munching through the GBs quick than a fire-sale, why am I looking for a new format?
I don't want physical disks for my films, I want virtual files that I can move from room to room, device to device, and if I was offered films for £3-£5 like this, I would buy everything that I could - and the physical cost of manufacturing the files would be, well, zero. The cost of distribution, over secure P2P would again be effectively zero, so me paying £3 would represent quite a margin to the studios (sod the distributors, they'll go the way of the music industry, kicking and screaming).
Obviously there needs to be alternatives to satisfy all markets but I've found the winning new format, and maybe, one day (it really should have been five years ago) the big boys will catch up, once they've finished throwing the DRM rattle out the cot.
So I got no interest in either format and I scratch my head over these multi-million-pound polished turds.