Posted by Gaz on 07/16/06 16:40

Sla#s wrote:
> 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


The media are well ahead of you, its all about DRM now. You dont buy the
product to watch whenever you want wherever you want. You buy it to watch it
once, or watch it on one particular TV, or watch it within thirty days etc
etc.
You want to watch it again, you buy it again, as its a license you will be
leasing, not a tangible goods like a dvd ot cd.

Gaz

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