| padib said: @Shadow. The difference between the physical format of a book and the physical format of a DVD is so different, I wouldn't even know where to start. DVD stands for Digital Video Disc. Even if the data is on a disc, it's still digital. A book, on the other hand, never was digital like an e-book or a DVD is. People are still strong on books because A) it's often easier on the eyes and B) many people prefer not bother with technology altogether. The difference between a BD and a digital movie is so much more limited than between a book and an e-book. Also, as for the downtime due to broken connection limiting access to content, if the world went all-out digital, don't you think there would be locations where people could buy digital content and just plug a digital drive and store it, much like going to a store and picking out a disc box and paying for it? And one more thing, what if your discs crack, get stolen, or are in a house fire? You're also in the same problem of possibly not being able to get them back at all, maybe the disc supplier no longer exists, whereas with digital you could find a friend who possibly has the same video as you and you could download it from their house. Also, it's much easier to back up digital version of movies and store them in a remote location than to back up disc versions (in which case the backup is almost always non-physical eventually anyway). Just my thoughts on that. Personally, for almost all movies I do not care. If I really want to see a picture in its glory, I watch it at the cinema. The cinema is something I really enjoy for those occasions. When I'm at home, those aren't the types of movies I want to watch anyways, I'd watch more Jerry Mcguire type movies, which are fine in Netflix quality. And if I actually really wanted a movie in HD (like the upcoming Star Wars trilogy, or an epic like Avatar), then yes I'll get it on Blu Ray, but given no data caps in Canada I could just as easily download it in HD. |
A movie was never digital either... Surely blu-ray is easier on the eyes than dvd or streaming as it comes closest to the original imagery. Plus blu-ray player + disk is not more difficult than checking multiple streaming services for availability.
Where are the places you can go to to pick up digital data? Why are they still not here. I think they tried with music, why not with movies?
Copying a digital movie from a friend is not legal, borrowing a disk is however. A house fire resulting in complete loss would be a problem. So would getting your account hacked, or identity stolen for digital media. You can prevent either.
As for the cinema, I wanted to watch The wind rises in the cinema. Sorry not available in your area. As with many movies I like to watch. I'm not interested in the latest 3D popcorn flick. However finally being abale to watch my favorite movies as they were intented to be seen and heard is awesome.
Oh and the picture quality in my local cinema is worse than at home, crap 2K projector with terrible black level and visble pixel structure.
Btw what do you mean by given no data caps in Canada? I'm in Ontario with a 80GB data cap.
