geoegress opened this issue on Oct 11, 2010 · 34 posts
wolf359 posted Tue, 12 October 2010 at 8:25 PM
Quote - maybe I'm a luddite but I certainly don't look forward to the death of physical media. You'll be at the mercy of the infrastructure vulnerable to anything from human screwups to terrorist cyber attacks on the one hand, and on the other, at the mercy of the people who brought us region encoding, the Sony rootkit, DRM, Macrovision etc. ad nauseum.
There will always be Physical media of course but as a commercial Delivery format (home video movie rental& sales)plastic disc's & packaging are most certainly DOOMED
HollyWood Appears,on some levels, to be trying to Avoid the bitter lesson learned by the music industry
with Direct to on Demand Movie releases.
Cheers