When Will Standard DVD Die?
07-11-10 | 05:12 AM
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Re: When Will Standard DVD Die?
You can shrink these movies down to a tiny size of course, however you lose quality that way which is surely the point of BD in the first place.
07-11-10 | 11:17 AM
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Re: When Will Standard DVD Die?
After many years of collecting music and movies, I'm actually thinking of commiting what I consider near-heresy....storing several hundred CDs on a hard drive and ditching the physical copies. Not every CD, mind you, but self-made compilations, and store-bought releases by bands like Night Ranger, Ted Nugent, etc., that really have very little relevance today (other than as classic rock listening). You know, musicians that I'd never care enough about to read the liner notes of the CDs ever again.
I'm thinkin' 'bout it, anyway, after years of saying "no physical copy = no sale".
I'm thinkin' 'bout it, anyway, after years of saying "no physical copy = no sale".
07-11-10 | 11:54 AM
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Re: When Will Standard DVD Die?
After many years of collecting music and movies, I'm actually thinking of commiting what I consider near-heresy....storing several hundred CDs on a hard drive and ditching the physical copies. Not every CD, mind you, but self-made compilations, and store-bought releases by bands like Night Ranger, Ted Nugent, etc., that really have very little relevance today (other than as classic rock listening). You know, musicians that I'd never care enough about to read the liner notes of the CDs ever again.
I'm thinkin' 'bout it, anyway, after years of saying "no physical copy = no sale".
I'm thinkin' 'bout it, anyway, after years of saying "no physical copy = no sale".
I do have many of my old CDs in binders now, and I plan to throw the cases away whenever I get around to finding that huge bin of them.
I don't think I'll ever do that with movies though. For me, a big part of the experience/process is leafing thru my shelves, and reading the box/inserts. I'm moving to slimcases to save room, but am pretty sure I'll never go digital.
I only buy a few CDs per year, and have never paid for a digital song or film. I don't plan to either.
07-11-10 | 12:50 PM
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Re: When Will Standard DVD Die?
Yeah, most people did this years ago, but I haven't quite gotten there either.
I do have many of my old CDs in binders now, and I plan to throw the cases away whenever I get around to finding that huge bin of them.
I don't think I'll ever do that with movies though. For me, a big part of the experience/process is leafing thru my shelves, and reading the box/inserts. I'm moving to slimcases to save room, but am pretty sure I'll never go digital.
I only buy a few CDs per year, and have never paid for a digital song or film. I don't plan to either.
I do have many of my old CDs in binders now, and I plan to throw the cases away whenever I get around to finding that huge bin of them.
I don't think I'll ever do that with movies though. For me, a big part of the experience/process is leafing thru my shelves, and reading the box/inserts. I'm moving to slimcases to save room, but am pretty sure I'll never go digital.
I only buy a few CDs per year, and have never paid for a digital song or film. I don't plan to either.
07-11-10 | 05:14 PM
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Re: When Will Standard DVD Die?
By "solid-state," I thought Coral was referring to a flash card format with one movie per card. I don't know if that could work, since it doesn't really bring anything new besides the smaller form factor. For portables, people are going to want to carry a device with files on it, not a bunch of little cards.
Blu-Ray may take over in 3 years as the current DVD players die and are upgraded to Blu-ray. The price of BR Players have fallen to a point that makes buying them a no brainer when the DVD player dies.
Other countries will go 100% BR before USA, which will push companies to only put out movies in BR.
But, for this to happen, they will need to have all traveling device BR - Laptops, portable DVD players...
OR make it easy to download/downconvert the BR to your PC to burn to DVD.
07-11-10 | 08:36 PM
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Re: When Will Standard DVD Die?
I think solid-state has a good chance - it just needs to come down in price and needs a big push across a few platforms. Selling music on thumb-drives was a weak push and was too early.
Imagine videogame consoles with SSDs. Less power required, less heat generated, quicker load times, less reading issues, and a smaller console.
We're already seeing SSDs (instead of HDs) on notebooks. Now DVD/BD drives on notebooks kill your battery life, make more noise and generates extra heat - SSD for movies is a big advantage on notebooks over those optical drives.
CD/DVD/BD are fine for now and won't go away anytime soon, but they are pretty clunky and will eventually be replaced by a better solution. I think solid-state is the replacement - unless something better is released.
Imagine videogame consoles with SSDs. Less power required, less heat generated, quicker load times, less reading issues, and a smaller console.
We're already seeing SSDs (instead of HDs) on notebooks. Now DVD/BD drives on notebooks kill your battery life, make more noise and generates extra heat - SSD for movies is a big advantage on notebooks over those optical drives.
CD/DVD/BD are fine for now and won't go away anytime soon, but they are pretty clunky and will eventually be replaced by a better solution. I think solid-state is the replacement - unless something better is released.
