Posted by Gary Kelman on 07/16/06 19:13

"Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> wrote in message
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> 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

There are already download to own movie services out there, but I wonder if
there might be a 2-tier system like Napster or HMV Digital with music, where
you can download to own and a subscription service where you can download as
much as you want aslong as you are paying a month subsciption (but can't
watch anything you've downloaded if you unsubscibe). I suppose they will try
to sell us everything in as many ways as possible and let us choose. I
assume they will want to give us as much choice as possible. I don't think
they'll ever force us into 1 choice. Hopefully not anyway. People like
having there own personal collections, surely they'd not ever dare take that
away from us...?

Gary

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