| endimion said: the only thing I see... live streaming on demand is the only way to go in the future, finally someone is actually getting a good idea in the IS/IT industry.... i'm tired of those useless format war of digital support when technically the only thing it does better than the rest is taking space on my shelves and keeping dust.... now lets develope cloud and grid computing.... and we won't need to worry about anything else than having a screen a sound system and a multimedia box receiver, and a very high speed connection no need of a PC or a player or even a console..... the future is all about software and services.... but people have problems to get that... they need their piece of crap in their hands to be happy for now, it's changing, and it's changing fast, you better like it because it won't ask you for your opinion |
I think the thing that is most hard to learn is that it is not a tangible product. Well, that and pretty much the fact that you can't trust anything that you can't hold in your hands.
Making all media intangible only adds to the problems if you ask me. Too much corporate controll.
How many times has making things intangible led to problems? A lot if you ask most people.
Use a bank? Ever been overdraft charged? That comes with not having the tangible money in your pocket. There are plenty of other things they can do to you.
Say you buy a movie online. Say you buy 200 movies online. Say your hard drive fails, say you don't keep receipts, say in ten years those 200 movies disappear because of some "expiration date" or "extended rental" service is how things are done. The response to problems like those by most companies? Not our problem, those are the conditions.
It's just another way to beurocratize your life, and take money out of your pocket with little investment by the company.
Shoot ask yourself this, why have digital prices gone up compared to media when production costs are absolutely zero???!?
I'm NOT saying this is a bad technology. I'm saying, put a company like MS (fire shield on) in charge of something like this, and expect to pay through the teeth, and only be dissappointed again and again. The monopolatory tactics leave little else. Just look at windows software. 200-400 for office???? Bill gates has how much money? Where is all this money going, seeing as how vista has been blasted over and over.
EDIT:I just wanted to remind everyone, that i am a vista user and i really enjoy it. Although i bought it OEM. I really like 360 although after Me and my 6 friends went through 20 units combined i can't handle it anymore. They have a good product, just not the best product, and it is really overpriced. Any of this can be said for Sony as well, so don't think i'm picking sides.
