Steve K.H.
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2002
- Messages
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It will happen... mainstream movie purchase being electronic. Everyone seems to overlook the advent of wireless technology. Wireless broadband overcomes the concerns we currently have with pipeline restrictions.
It took Napster to create a vision of people accepting ripping or downloading digital media as a primary source of maintaining their audio collection.
Despite the RIAA's attempts to stop people from owning digital music, the natural progression continued. We now see vehicles with MP3 players, the resurrection of Steve Job's corporation based on an iPod, and sites selling the songs we want instead of people sharing them.
Funny thing is, now people are PAYING for what was (and is) available for free. Why? Convenience. Quality. Many would rather pay $1 for one song instead of searching and downloading that song only to find it inferior. Time is money. Others would rather pay $1 for one song than $10 for a crap CD that has that one song on it.
As it stands right now, the broadband marketplace was pushed forward. In the space of 3 years it jumped 400% in the U.S. Canada was the leading broadband nation in the world 3 years ago (per capita) so they didn't spike another 400% obviously.
Bittorrents take up fully ONE-THIRD of the current traffic on the internet. To explain, that doesn't mean if you aren't downloading, either your neighbour on one side or the other is. It means that of all the people online, the select few who have Bittorrents running are chewing up pipelines.
Eventually, people are going to tire of stealing movies. This is again due to the time involved, and also because the consumer doesn't want to spend all that time getting an inferior product for free. An analogy I could use is if someone gave you an option to own a free P/S copy of the original Good Bad and Ugly DVD release, you would still rather pay for the W/S remastered version.
I predict we'll see the same transitional change through an evolution of movie media as we see with MP3's.
You'll have a media player with perhaps a small visual display on the player. The visual display will be just like you looking through your iPod but much more refined. It'll hold say 10,000 GB of data.
Your media will be downloadable of the internet, or you will receive a memory stick with the entire film on it that you upload onto the media player... no restrictions from the media capacity that we have with DVD, just carry a bigger stick (who said that!) The memory stick or download will carry the license with it.
20 years ago we oohed and ahhed about computers with a Hard Drive of 20 MB. 20 years from now our children (or their children) will look at our DVD's as we look at 8 Tracks... "that person is afraid of staying current!"
What we say we will do now is commendable, and this will assist in shaping the final details on our picture of the future. The future will happen as conveniences become realistic and cost-effective, despite what we say we will or will not do.
It took Napster to create a vision of people accepting ripping or downloading digital media as a primary source of maintaining their audio collection.
Despite the RIAA's attempts to stop people from owning digital music, the natural progression continued. We now see vehicles with MP3 players, the resurrection of Steve Job's corporation based on an iPod, and sites selling the songs we want instead of people sharing them.
Funny thing is, now people are PAYING for what was (and is) available for free. Why? Convenience. Quality. Many would rather pay $1 for one song instead of searching and downloading that song only to find it inferior. Time is money. Others would rather pay $1 for one song than $10 for a crap CD that has that one song on it.
As it stands right now, the broadband marketplace was pushed forward. In the space of 3 years it jumped 400% in the U.S. Canada was the leading broadband nation in the world 3 years ago (per capita) so they didn't spike another 400% obviously.
Bittorrents take up fully ONE-THIRD of the current traffic on the internet. To explain, that doesn't mean if you aren't downloading, either your neighbour on one side or the other is. It means that of all the people online, the select few who have Bittorrents running are chewing up pipelines.
Eventually, people are going to tire of stealing movies. This is again due to the time involved, and also because the consumer doesn't want to spend all that time getting an inferior product for free. An analogy I could use is if someone gave you an option to own a free P/S copy of the original Good Bad and Ugly DVD release, you would still rather pay for the W/S remastered version.
I predict we'll see the same transitional change through an evolution of movie media as we see with MP3's.
You'll have a media player with perhaps a small visual display on the player. The visual display will be just like you looking through your iPod but much more refined. It'll hold say 10,000 GB of data.
Your media will be downloadable of the internet, or you will receive a memory stick with the entire film on it that you upload onto the media player... no restrictions from the media capacity that we have with DVD, just carry a bigger stick (who said that!) The memory stick or download will carry the license with it.
20 years ago we oohed and ahhed about computers with a Hard Drive of 20 MB. 20 years from now our children (or their children) will look at our DVD's as we look at 8 Tracks... "that person is afraid of staying current!"
What we say we will do now is commendable, and this will assist in shaping the final details on our picture of the future. The future will happen as conveniences become realistic and cost-effective, despite what we say we will or will not do.