When Will DVD Die?

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by robinandtami

Again.... storage would not be the huge issue some make it out to be. Terabytes are running in the neighborhood of about $100 and less these days. That's over 900 gigs of storage... enough for at least 18 movies... IF you go with the assumption that every movie uses the full 50 gig.... obviously most don't use anywhere near the full 50. That's about $5 per movie.

but you are missing the big issues
1) you need a server (it is not only an HDD)
2) 18 movies per disk sounds good, but what how many people will , take appart the server to add an other drive? for me and you it is easy, but most people don't like doing that.
3) the 5$ a movie is above the price of the movie
4) if someone does not collect movies, it is easy to talk about 18 movies, but someone with a 200 collection would mean 11 dives+, someone with 400, 23+ how many drive bays will these servers have?
5) what happens if something happens to the server or drive
6) in order to offer legal movies on a home media server, the DRC will need to make 100% sure that they are not shared, the studios will not want one person to buy it and then 20, 30 ,40+ friends and family add it to their own server.

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