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| EricHiggin said: I don't know anybody who prefers their newer LED LCD picture or speakers over my Plasma. My Plasma is 14 years old and still works. It was also quite cheap when I bought it as Plasma costs had been reduced considerably over the years. Like LCD territory cheap. They stopped making Plasma Tv's around 2015 and they don't make most parts for them anymore either. I'm not saying people have no power to stop what some groups are pushing. I'm just saying those groups are doing a very good job of getting the herd to go where they want. That doesn't mean some of them don't stray and are very difficult to round up. The point is like your Nvidia reference. There's a direction groups are all heading and they want everyone to follow, and to the benefit of the few in the group, more and more. I'm not really disagreeing with your points. I'm disagreeing with the intention behind it all and the supposed understanding everyone has about where this eventually leads. |
I don't know anyone who thought the 3DS has better graphics than the Vita yet the 3DS outsold it 5 to 1. Plasmas were simply not as popular as LCDs which is why the industry shifted from them. The industry didn't shift from it ahead of the people, there was direct competition and the general public did not majorly care about plasma colour benefits and instead preferred cheaper/lighter screens and that's where the market moved. Especially as TV manufacturing is complex, whole infrastructure has to be built around the individual technologies which means plasma isn't going to live on as niche. We've got oled now which makes that obsolete though ;)
Going back to the core most point - My intention isn't to champion digital or negate the future risk but to understand that even without the "evil plan" to take everything a way from us, people (the masses) would always develop in the direction of a strong digital preference. If we really want to guard against the concerns of the future, that to me is very important and means a significant amount of work needs to actually go into fighting for good digital rights, not just hoping physical never goes away or remain popular.
Ironically I actually think Sony announcing this prematurely and dropping disks probably a generation too soon is actually going to be the biggest boost to physical media as people react to the very same fear you're suggesting.
