Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
How about a 51 year old man who is a veteran of "format" wars?
You are older than myself and have not learned about civil discourse without the name calling? This is not a feather in your cap.

I REMEMBER just a few years ago , a 15in LCD was 2 grand, 1080p was a "decade"
away, and would be damn expensive then, and solid state storage of media was a fantasy
Today you can get an LCD 42IN FOR 800 bucks in some places, in between posting on this site I AM DOWNLOADING MY ENTIRE music video and CD collection onto a 320 gig harddrive I BOUGHT FOR 99 BUCKS.
And you can buy a completely solid state camcorder for 150 bucks on qvc.
And no downloading isnt the future, and we will never get into WWII (said on dec 6, 1941)
This trip down memory lane has zero relevance to the topic at hand. What you are doing, what Nighliar is doing, and what I am doing does not reflect what the rest of America is doing. You have to look at the trends, and downloading software, passing music, doing research online and surfing, are not the same as downloading a movie to a hometheater and watching it. There is no trend that point to that. Downloading a television show that was free on network televsion is not the same thing. Trading bootleg files is not the same thing. Storing music is one thing(I have three hard drives full of music) but storing a movie file that has the elements of the disc is not a widespread thing. Until it becomes one, the studio will not release content this way.

I download everyday, and so do you, you just dont see it as downloading.
Ever hear of youtube? episodes of TV you can catch up on on the networks websites?
Four years ago I had gigs of movies, tv shows , music vids, you name it, on my computer.
I do not watch episodes of television on my computer. I do download youtube, but is that the same experience as looking at spidey 3 on my hometheater. I think not. Once again, what you do, and what all of America is doing is not the same. And to make the assumption its the same, is more irrogant than one can believe.


The world is no longer frames, musical notes, etc, its ones and zeros.
Its been that way since the compact disc for music, and the DVD for films. Not anything new here.

Its not silver nitrate, its silicon.
And its not a plastic disc , its a hard drive.
buggy before horse. When ALL of America has hard drives and no disc, then you can say this. To say this now means you live on another planet(which wouldn't surprise me one bit)

The world doesnt turn on a dime, but the astute can see which direction in which its going,
and the expensive process of making a disc and shipping it somewhere will seem quite silly when you can push a button and see every movie ever made, anytime you want.
Which is basically where the music industry is NOW.
And just like broadcast tv followed broadcast radio, and videocassettes followed
records and CD's, so downloading of video will follow downloading of music.
Indeed its already taking place
When the austute inform themselves on what the industry REALLY is doing, and not what they THINK its doing, they know that downloading movies to own is currently a disaster. Downloading for rentals is not making any headway against renting physical disc. You guys keep comparing movies with music and they are not the same. Music has a very short window of value, movies do not. The cost of producing an album is no where near the cost of creating a movie. The market for older music is fading fast, but the market for classic movies does not appear to be that way.

When we get to 2050, then maybe you have a point. You may know about downloading, but you do not know the movie industry at all. Follow the money guys, that is what they do. And the money is not in downloads, its in disc no matter haw draconian you think that is.