And to those who think VOD is the next coming of video formats, VOD has underperformed at every step of the way. People have been predicting VOD would take off for years, and it is still just a humble slice of the home video pie. Blu-Ray is yielding much higher profits for movie studios than VOD.
At least things like Netflix are making it have more mass appeal. But technically that is more of an added bonus rather than true VOD. True VOD is where you pay to rent (or buy) titles directly. Most people wouldn't use Netflix if all it offered was VOD. Most people use Netflix because you can rent the DVD's. The streaming functionality is just a bonus.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
