sextonseven said:

The day is coming soon when all entertainment (music, film, books, games) will be digital files on a massive hard drive in a person's home.

I can see fine art going digital after that. Hang a digital frame on your wall and with the press of a button, a different painting or photograph can appear inside. Sculpture can be digital too.

It's already here 4 a lot of folks. I like a mixture of both.

sextonseven said:

The day is coming soon when all entertainment (music, film, books, games) will be digital files on a massive hard drive in a person's home.

I can see fine art going digital after that. Hang a digital frame on your wall and with the press of a button, a different painting or photograph can appear inside. Sculpture can be digital too.

it makes sense. less waste/packaging

they will need to find a way to copy protect or the system may collapse. It will no longer be lucrative enough for companies to bother anymore!

Graycap23 said:

sextonseven said:

The day is coming soon when all entertainment (music, film, books, games) will be digital files on a massive hard drive in a person's home.

I can see fine art going digital after that. Hang a digital frame on your wall and with the press of a button, a different painting or photograph can appear inside. Sculpture can be digital too.

It's already here 4 a lot of folks.

The only problem I have with it is how are guests supposed to see what an elitist you are if all your snobby books, albums and movies are not on display?

sextonseven said:

Graycap23 said:

It's already here 4 a lot of folks.

The only problem I have with it is how are guests supposed to see what an elitist you are if all your snobby books, albums and movies are not on display?

it'll be a less is more thing. A totally empty apartment will be the ultimate status symbol of culture

NDRU said:

sextonseven said:

The only problem I have with it is how are guests supposed to see what an elitist you are if all your snobby books, albums and movies are not on display?

it'll be a less is more thing. A totally empty apartment will be the ultimate status symbol of culture

Like those rooms on the "V" ship. lol................

Once you go Popcorn Hour, high speed internet and torrents there isnt a need for Blurays either.....unless you just like collecting packaging.

sextonseven said:

Graycap23 said:

It's already here 4 a lot of folks.

The only problem I have with it is how are guests supposed to see what an elitist you are if all your snobby books, albums and movies are not on display?

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

Once you go Popcorn Hour, high speed internet and torrents there isnt a need for Blurays either.....unless you just like collecting packaging.

I have never downloaded a movie.

Quality concerns and them stringing together a series of files the then transfer to disc . . . . .

Nah. IF I like it that much I'll buy it.

SUPRMAN said:

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

Once you go Popcorn Hour, high speed internet and torrents there isnt a need for Blurays either.....unless you just like collecting packaging.

I have never downloaded a movie.

Quality concerns and them stringing together a series of files the then transfer to disc . . . . .

Nah. IF I like it that much I'll buy it.

No quality concerns....straight Bluray rips.

No need to transfer to disc....reads right off the hard drive.

But to each his own.

sextonseven said:

The day is coming soon when all entertainment (music, film, books, games) will be digital files on a massive hard drive in a person's home.

I can see fine art going digital after that. Hang a digital frame on your wall and with the press of a button, a different painting or photograph can appear inside. Sculpture can be digital too.

I don't believe it will ever become a 100% complete switch. There will always be people who want to hold a product in their hand who will be willing to pay for the experience. For now I'm still one of them. I like holding records in my hand and I like taking a disc out of the case to put in the blu-ray player.

sextonseven said:

Graycap23 said:

It's already here 4 a lot of folks.

The only problem I have with it is how are guests supposed to see what an elitist you are if all your snobby books, albums and movies are not on display?

If they could find a way to save space by eliminating a physical partner and have sex through a computer, they'd do that too. Everything doesn't need to be inside a computer because there's nothing like the real thing.

NDRU said:

sextonseven said:

The only problem I have with it is how are guests supposed to see what an elitist you are if all your snobby books, albums and movies are not on display?

it'll be a less is more thing. A totally empty apartment will be the ultimate status symbol of culture

Which would be dull as hell because how you decorate your place shows your personality to your guests.

I still like going to the cinema. It's $2 here in Bkk on Wednesdays at one place, and $4 or $5 at other times. I like it feeling like a special event you make a point to go out for.

vainandy said:

NDRU said:

it'll be a less is more thing. A totally empty apartment will be the ultimate status symbol of culture

Which would be dull as hell because how you decorate your place shows your personality to your guests.

Dull as hell to you, but maybe not to others. Not decorating would show your personality too!

Cerebus said:

sextonseven said:

The day is coming soon when all entertainment (music, film, books, games) will be digital files on a massive hard drive in a person's home.

I can see fine art going digital after that. Hang a digital frame on your wall and with the press of a button, a different painting or photograph can appear inside. Sculpture can be digital too.

I don't believe it will ever become a 100% complete switch. There will always be people who want to hold a product in their hand who will be willing to pay for the experience. For now I'm still one of them. I like holding records in my hand and I like taking a disc out of the case to put in the blu-ray player.

I agree with you that buying movies on disc will become a niche market like how vinyl records have become.

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

Once you go Popcorn Hour, high speed internet and torrents there isnt a need for Blurays either.....unless you just like collecting packaging.

But what about extra info,bonus footage, outtakes, liner notes etc.etc.?

I´m with Suprman here, I still buy DVDs that I like. Most of the downloaded stuff gets lost in oblivion somewhere on my harddisk, including burned DVDs.

But I know where my store bought DVDs with the nice packaging are.

vainandy said:

NDRU said:

it'll be a less is more thing. A totally empty apartment will be the ultimate status symbol of culture

Which would be dull as hell because how you decorate your place shows your personality to your guests.

but if your personality is dull, then it's perfect!

KoolEaze said:

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

Once you go Popcorn Hour, high speed internet and torrents there isnt a need for Blurays either.....unless you just like collecting packaging.

But what about extra info,bonus footage, outtakes, liner notes etc.etc.?

I´m with Suprman here, I still buy DVDs that I like. Most of the downloaded stuff gets lost in oblivion somewhere on my harddisk, including burned DVDs.

But I know where my store bought DVDs with the nice packaging are.

I know of very few dvd's that come with liner notes. And you can get the bonus footage and outtakes if you download straight bluray rips.

I have 4 terabytes of dedicated media storage, all in network attached storage, all tagged with posters/box artwork, all backed up. I take pride in my digital media just like I did with my physical media .

I download movies (just so that's clear) and I have a very high end system (from the PC to the blu-ray player to the tv). They DO NOT look the same. Do they look good? Yes, they do. It depends on how they're ripped and/or compressed, but yeah, the files, played from a hd or burned to a disc do look good. But they do not look the same as a shiny new disc played directly through a blu-ray player with the correct cables connected to a good hd tv. The science of it proves all that pretty quickly. So again, there will never be a complete switch. Not anytime soon, anyway.

Cerebus said:

I download movies (just so that's clear) and I have a very high end system (from the PC to the blu-ray player to the tv). They DO NOT look the same. Do they look good? Yes, they do. It depends on how they're ripped and/or compressed, but yeah, the files, played from a hd or burned to a disc do look good. But they do not look the same as a shiny new disc played directly through a blu-ray player with the correct cables connected to a good hd tv. The science of it proves all that pretty quickly. So again, there will never be a complete switch. Not anytime soon, anyway.

Which sounds like Netflix streaming quality. I'd rather buy.

Cerebus said:

SUPRMAN said: