| Otter said: This is a conspiracy though. The industry didn't kill DVDs/Blueray/CDs... Consumers did. No one buys music any more because the abundance of streaming is easier and more flexible. When iTunes dropped people stopped buying CDs. When Spotify dropped people stopped buying digital music and instead streamed it. A lot of these things are singularities because human behaviour typically leans in the direction of convenience & abundance. |
That's true. It's not like digital was significantly cheaper than physical. You can't even claim companies were placing a thumb on the scale just to raise prices later.
Optical media being increasingly obsolete didn't help either. 50-100 GB storage, and especially the 50 MB/s reads, look very mundane compared to solid-state storage and even hard disks. If it had advanced just half as fast as Moore's Law, we'd have a format with >1 TB disks with 700 MB/s reading speeds by 2020, enough for tons of uncompressed/redundant assets and probably enough to stream on the fly.
Instead, since the PS3, we had to deal with installs and extra storage requirements, etc., which made a lot of people realize, what's even the point?
