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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 05/14/95 11:53
Sla#s wrote:
> Gary Kelman wrote:
>> "Sla#s" <phil@KNOT.slatts.net> wrote in message
>> news:44b6d5cd$0$69392$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>>> For the last sixty years manufacturers have been selling us a new
>>> media format approximately every ten years - 78s, LPs, Cassettes,
>>> CDs, Videos, DVDs and now HDDVD & Blueray.
>>> But has this merry-go-round come to an end? What can they sell us
>>> next after we will all start downloading media off the net. The
>>> cash cow that kept the giants of the media industry in coke and
>>> champagne will be dead. iTunes has changed the music industry, what
>>> will iFlicks (TM) do when it inevitably arrives?
>>>
>>> Slatts
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5187382.stm
>>
>>
>
> That kind of fits what I was thinking that "BlueDVD" (Tm) will be the
> "Last Format" and after it, in the ten years it takes to invent a new
> format, all will be downloadable Bytes.
> The delivery media becomes fixed.
> If you look at the survey on the page you quote above you will see 37%
> of folk (OK, who read the page) already stream music around their
> homes. Yes in ten years not everyone will be online but what
> manufacturer will invest billions in developing a new format that
> will only be bought by this small, non tech savy, percentage of the
> population?
> So the only new formats will be software rather than hardware. There
> will be improvements is sound and vision but it will be simply getting
> upgraded from Ver 6 to Ver 7.
> So all that will be left for hardware manufactures to sell us will be
> better screens and speakers, as the players themselves will be PCs
> and Macs.
Well it is possible that a more "film-like" format will come out. The
_quality_ of a well-filmed film (say "Eyes Wide Shut") in the cinema is
still faaar from what it looks like in home formats.
Taking the EWS example (and no -I don't want to hear what anyone thought of
the movie itself), in the cinema it was like 'moving chunky canvas'. On dvd
it's like a crispy clean table-top... too smooth and ...'perfect'.
Other dvd releases have tried to recreate the cinema grain... Adaptation I
think is the one that comes to mind first... but it never looks like
anything other than "a bad dvd transfer".
Possibly this can never be done in a digital format -and if not, we could
see a push towards a "return" to a high-quality analogue format for purists
at some stage.
But who knows?
-Kevin.
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