so how long does DVD have until it dies the way VHS did? (as far as stores not carrying tapes anymore or stores not sell
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Speed_Daemon — 9 years ago(June 28, 2016 04:00 PM)
Most consumers are going to prefer "on demand" to local storage. That way, they can watch what they want, when they want, without having to go to the store to buy it or worry about where they're going to keep it.
This is a good time to revisit this, as there is news.
First, let's dispel the myth that getting to keep a copy of something always entails "going to the store". It does not. Everything that I have on local storage was delivered to me over wires, either as a QAM cable or ATSC OTA TV stream, or as a file over the Internet. I didn't go to a store once, though I have a few optical discs that Amazon delivered to me.
The news is that, like Amazon already does, Netflix is moving towards local storage as a way for their customers to watch content when they're not connected to a high bit-rate Internet connection. People who spend long periods of time in planes, trains and automobiles need local storage because existing wireless coverage simply isn't even close to being everywhere.
I've been converting files from my TiVo boxes for travel use for over a decade, and more recently, Dish has been offering "store and forward" as a service to their users through an app. You can expect more of this as people take their mobile devices beyond the reach of all "online" networks. -
mikekuhlman-415-393642 — 9 years ago(June 23, 2016 11:48 AM)
As long as DVD keeps making MONEY for the movie studios and networks. When the MONEY stops rolling for DVD because every consumer in the world is buying blu-rays, the movie studios and networks will stop making DVDs. And by that time, blu-rays will be so cheap, will be selling for $1, so who cares?
I give DVD longer than VHS and VHS probably lasted 30 years. That means at least the year 2027. -
Speed_Daemon — 9 years ago(June 28, 2016 03:48 PM)
There's another angle that just came to me. Every once in a while the fact that US nuclear launch computers are not network connected ("air-gapped" is a popular if silly term in popular usage) and use old-fashioned floppy disks to store their machine code on. The uninformed usually make a joke of it, but the fact is that it's a proven technology that's been completely debugged, and not modernizing is done on purpose for security.
I'd wager that the DVD will find a similar niche. As with old floppy disks, the DVD is advanced enough to be reliable, but not so advanced as to introduce any security problems. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the the US DoD and other state security agencies worldwide have already purchased DVD pressing (not just a WORM drive) facilities to use for archiving and moving data that's too sensitive to send over cables. It makes sense, after all the DoD makes its own floppy disk media now. -
Woodyanders — 5 years ago(November 24, 2020 09:33 PM)
I keep finding all kinds of films on DVD for just a buck at Dollar Tree, so the format has definitely been relegated to the sidelines at this point in time.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything. -
476ee2aae0585c9553e5b457671330a2 — 5 years ago(December 02, 2020 08:50 PM)
People are lazy now. No one wants to pop in a disc or go thru the menus and settings.
Even I hate it when I have to endure 5 locked movie trailers or these long FBI warning logo just to access to the film itself on the disc.