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I should be studying, but...
Jun. 9th, 2011 01:03 pmAfter yesterday's aggravating discovery, the news that Blu Ray sales are disappointing BRINGS JOY TO MY HEART. I am a small and petty person. Sue me.
It's clear which way the wind blows on the issue of physical media, whatever its "definition": high or low-res, digital copies are going to take over. I don't have to like it--point of fact, I don't, overly--it's a fact. Movies lagged behind music in this respect because of numerous factors, such as the late arrival of a practical disc version of movies (versus the longer history of the CD), the fact that movies were more expensive, etc. etc. High Definition, like 3D in the movie theater, is only a setback on an overall irrevocable march towards a very obvious future. In this respect, the few months/years it took to resolve HD-DVD vs Blu Ray eliminated the maybe 5-year lead Blu Ray could have had to really take off before digital took over.
Well, digital has taken over, whether we know it (and/or use it) or not. Digital streaming, digital downloads not only come in high definition--the last refuge of physical media--high def has become de rigeur. Don't get me wrong, digital still has all the hiccups of media delivery systems that preceded it, the fight over DRM not least among them. Here's hoping for a future with more Netflix-like flexibility about where we absorb our media and less "Sorry, but your Digital Download is expired" dogmatic insistence on the customer conforming to the studios instead of the other way around.
It's clear which way the wind blows on the issue of physical media, whatever its "definition": high or low-res, digital copies are going to take over. I don't have to like it--point of fact, I don't, overly--it's a fact. Movies lagged behind music in this respect because of numerous factors, such as the late arrival of a practical disc version of movies (versus the longer history of the CD), the fact that movies were more expensive, etc. etc. High Definition, like 3D in the movie theater, is only a setback on an overall irrevocable march towards a very obvious future. In this respect, the few months/years it took to resolve HD-DVD vs Blu Ray eliminated the maybe 5-year lead Blu Ray could have had to really take off before digital took over.
Well, digital has taken over, whether we know it (and/or use it) or not. Digital streaming, digital downloads not only come in high definition--the last refuge of physical media--high def has become de rigeur. Don't get me wrong, digital still has all the hiccups of media delivery systems that preceded it, the fight over DRM not least among them. Here's hoping for a future with more Netflix-like flexibility about where we absorb our media and less "Sorry, but your Digital Download is expired" dogmatic insistence on the customer conforming to the studios instead of the other way around.
