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RayB:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on August 26, 2009, 05:36:42 pm ---The entertainment industry listens to what the younger generation wants.
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???  :dizzy:  yeah. sure. Young people clearly expressed wanting music in portable formats (MP3) as far back as 1996. So the entertainment industry listened? No, they had to be "convinced", and their arms twisted by the likes of Apple.

saint:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on August 26, 2009, 04:54:17 pm ---5 years ago I would be able to tell my friends I'll be out of work by 8:30 because we have to make FedEx.

I use to have a FedEx run twice a week, Now I go to FedEx about 4 times a year.

I sometimes work until 1 am on a Friday night, starting a 4 Gig upload to the clients servers for Monday.

I agree with everyone on this.  Streaming will be the way to rent, but people who own will always want hard copies.

...and those hard copies will be on USB drives.

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I don't think the USB drive form factor will suit people who want to own. Discs you can organize and look at. I dunno, could be wrong but I don't see it. I rip every DVD we buy on to my media server but we still keep all the cases in the media library.  :dunno

Ginsu Victim:
I'm the sort who proudly displays their DVD collection and I'm not alone in doing so.

Dartful Dodger:
In H.S a friend who loves music would proudly display his vinyl album covers.  In college he had to get one of those racks that hold 100s of CD cases.  DVDs come in bigger boxes, so now he's given up the fight and switched to putting them all in a binder.


--- Quote from: saint on August 26, 2009, 09:53:12 pm ---I don't think the USB drive form factor will suit people who want to own. Discs you can organize and look at. I dunno, could be wrong but I don't see it. I rip every DVD we buy on to my media server but we still keep all the cases in the media library.  :dunno

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Same here, sort of.  I don't have a media server, but I put my DVDs in a binder and put their cases in a storage box, same with all the music CDs, and ps1 and ps3 games.  The boxes are all different sizes, but they are all in the same storage box. I think if they switched to flash drives, I wouldn't skip a beat. I'd have to get a different case/binder for the drives and the boxes the drives came in would be put in the same storage box as the other media boxes.

Driving to work I like to listen to books on tape in my car's CD player (see what I did there?), but the last book on tape I wanted was on a dedicated mp3 player.  The librarian told me that's the way all the new books on tape are gong to be.

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 27, 2009, 04:33:33 pm ---Mini CDs (for singles) have never caught on, mini discs were dead in the water, the list goes on and on.

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Apples to oranges.

I remember when a client asked us to create a cross platform application that would fit on one of those business card cds.  He was so hip and cool and he wanted everyone to know it.  He was so hip and cool his demo had to work on the latest and greatest Mac, since our only Mac at the time was a PowerMac we bought an iMac for this project.  After getting our brand new iMac we called the client back into our office.  We then showed him the suck in disk drive on our hip and cool iMac.

Those mini cds had the same problem, they were obsolete before they even left the gate.  We still have a spool of 90+ cds.  (Since I wasn't a Mac guy I still thought they were interesting so I put my demo on a few of them.

The usb isn't going anywhere anytime soon.  Even Mac's hip and cool fire wire has been squashed by the usb.  The great thing about usb drives is that they don't have to look like a lighter.  Although the slim shape works in most situations a car movie could be put on a matchbox car shaped drive with moving wheels or gun shaped drive or rose shaped drive...  The types of drives are as endless as the movies themselves.

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