The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn

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Where there's a will, there's a way...

Probably true. DVD's already provide pretty good quality for most users. A problem with downloads is you can't give them as gifts and you can't use them "wherever whenever", e.g., for kids in the car, on a camping trip, in a vacation cabin, a Winnebago, an airport lounge, Starbucks, etc. Also, hi-def really isn't that impressive on a small screen. Music CD's are still around and will be for years, despite MP3's.

While you can't always give the actual files you've downloaded as a gift, with the music biz, you CAN give gift cards that give you so much credit towards downloads on iTunes or other music services that do per song pricing. You can likely also give gift subscriptions to subscription services like Zune Marketplace as well.

I would imagine video services would likely do something similar.

Of course, we ARE talking about freakin' PORN here - so somehow I don't think playing the spankables in public places is something that most people would be wanting to do. Most would be happy with streaming them at home or somewhere they can have some private uh..time.

Realistically, the Blu-Ray format itself will really take off when re-writable disks/drives hit about 200 GB capacity at a decent price, so they can be used for large-scale backup. Tape drives in that range are astronomical.

Eh.. Maybe, more than likely not. Burning DVD and BR media takes a lot longer than copying the drive to another hard drive of greater or equal capacity. Standard hard drives are dirt cheap - and you can buy an external cage to house them for less than $20 bucks. Or you can buy an external drive complete for a bit more. Those generally even come with backup software. And with USB 3.0 on the horizon, their future is almost certainly guaranteed.

Posted by: Wolfie2K3   Posted on: 01/06/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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