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Originally Posted by Widukind
Physical Media sticking around?
I buy my MUSIC now totally downloaded. No physical CDs. While CDs still sell, I am sure their numbers are down, but I admit I have not researched this out. Also, knowing a bit about the music industry, it will unintentionally drive CD sales down. Most bands or teen age acts (who can't typically write their own music) get two good songs, and a bunch of filler songs, and a couple songs sell a CD. Now that you download, and you can hear a clip of the songs first, why buy the whole CD you won't listen to anyways??? Thus, I spend two bucks on two songs, as oppossed to the whole darn CD to begin with! Thus, CDs are a thing of the past now!
With Movies, I do beleive it will be different. First, you won't be allowed to watch more than the preview before downloading. Some previews portray a bad movie well...Second, DVDs take up a lot of space. I actually can fit them in 1/6th the space using slim CD cases. I like Blu-Ray cause its cases are slim, and allows me to keep the original package, without taking up much space. But my desktop and lap top can store lots of movies, without taking up my own bedroom, and my kids, or my livingroom. Again, space is the issue, this is why I chose Blu-Ray as well...
One shelf of a book shelf, or the whole darn shelf?
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see my previous post - movies & music are different as far as revenue is concerned, IMO.
I've downloaded some music too, but I'll tell ya if I EVER get to downloading movies, ya better be damn sure I'm backing them up on PHYSICAL MEDIA (BR, anyone?). what if the HD that stores my downloads fails? OOPS! there goes my "collection". so why go through all the BS of doing that, just buy the BR releases. F*&k downloads.