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Good bye DVD and Blue-Ray
28/02/2010 ArchivesTechnology
I found this article today while floating around the internet: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/10/blockbuster-wants-you-to-rent-your-movies-on-sd-cards-now/
With the availability of high speed internet connections becoming more common place in the home and a large number of people using flash style devices, I have always believed that media like DVD and Blue-ray would quickly be phased out. I am glad to see that a company has decided start renting movies on other media besides DVD or Blue-ray. From a technological standpoint, it seems like DVDs and Blue-rays are just behind the times.
DVDs and Blue-rays are big, bulky, easily damaged and not as green as solid-state alternatives. Disks need to be made, processed, transported and eventually disposed. Producing a lot of waste along the way. With flash drives and internet connections becoming more efficient, all of these things can be avoided. Production companies could even make their movies available instantly without having to do much of anything besides making them available online. Flash drives are reusable, so after the initial investment of making the solid state device, little waste is prodced. Using technology like solid-state or downloadable movies would also save a significant amount of money for movie lovers.
Eventually movies available on flash-drives or SD cards will also be obsolete to downloadable content. Google has announced it going to try and build a gigabit internet system in a handful of U.S. cities as an experiment(link). With internet connection at that speed, most hardware will be obsolete and everyone will use virtual desktops. Companies like Netflix(who already has downloadable movies) will be the norm for movie lovers in the future.
DVD and Blue-ray will eventually die, and I see it happening within the next few years. Flash drives are smaller, lighter, less bulky, impervious to dust and scratches, similar in capacity (some flash now hold twice as much data as dual layer Blue-ray disks), and they are more green than DVDs and Blue-rays. And with internet connections getting quicker, I quickly see DVD and Blue-ray disk collections being thrown in the garbage like most VHS collections.
(This is an old blog, so links may no longer work or exist.)
With the availability of high speed internet connections becoming more common place in the home and a large number of people using flash style devices, I have always believed that media like DVD and Blue-ray would quickly be phased out. I am glad to see that a company has decided start renting movies on other media besides DVD or Blue-ray. From a technological standpoint, it seems like DVDs and Blue-rays are just behind the times.
DVDs and Blue-rays are big, bulky, easily damaged and not as green as solid-state alternatives. Disks need to be made, processed, transported and eventually disposed. Producing a lot of waste along the way. With flash drives and internet connections becoming more efficient, all of these things can be avoided. Production companies could even make their movies available instantly without having to do much of anything besides making them available online. Flash drives are reusable, so after the initial investment of making the solid state device, little waste is prodced. Using technology like solid-state or downloadable movies would also save a significant amount of money for movie lovers.
Eventually movies available on flash-drives or SD cards will also be obsolete to downloadable content. Google has announced it going to try and build a gigabit internet system in a handful of U.S. cities as an experiment(link). With internet connection at that speed, most hardware will be obsolete and everyone will use virtual desktops. Companies like Netflix(who already has downloadable movies) will be the norm for movie lovers in the future.
DVD and Blue-ray will eventually die, and I see it happening within the next few years. Flash drives are smaller, lighter, less bulky, impervious to dust and scratches, similar in capacity (some flash now hold twice as much data as dual layer Blue-ray disks), and they are more green than DVDs and Blue-rays. And with internet connections getting quicker, I quickly see DVD and Blue-ray disk collections being thrown in the garbage like most VHS collections.
(This is an old blog, so links may no longer work or exist.)
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