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NEWS: Toshiba Discontinues HD DVD Business


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Zoe



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:07 pm Reply with quote
8JF wrote:
If music is an example of media developments how much longer are we going to cling to physical copies bought at stores instead of downloads and streaming from broadband Internet?

The digital music format of choice is MP3 and it's lower quality than CDaudio but successfully killed DVDaudio by convenience not by quality.


Music is a completely different beast from video. The quality difference is acceptable to most users, the file sizes are small enough to be trivial, and it's easily portable.

Video, on the other hand, requires much more space to be comparable to real HD quality (so storage and transit time are issues) and is riddled with DRM.
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Primus



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:22 pm Reply with quote
DClark wrote:
The problem is that we don't know if that listing is from before or after Paramount's HD DVD deal. If I remember correctly stores like Best Buy and Circuit City were taking preorders for both Shrek 3 and Transformers before the announcement, so it would stand to reason they had an SKU ready. I don't doubt that Transformers will be one of the, if not the first post HD DVD deal Paramount Blu-ray offering, but I think it's best to just wait for the official announcement.


Quite true, although, I think I remember reading an article stating that Paramount had actually heavily prepared the Blu-Ray release, but was canceled due to the HD-DVD exclusivity, so it wouldn't be that far fetched to think that the Blu-Ray release is set so that it can go to the presses for a quick release. Although, I'll wait for the official announcement aswell. Hopefully this version will have scenes that were edited for time that weren't included in the September Imax Release.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:47 pm Reply with quote
8JF wrote:
If music is an example of media developments how much longer are we going to cling to physical copies bought at stores instead of downloads and streaming from broadband Internet?

The digital music format of choice is MP3 and it's lower quality than CDaudio but successfully killed DVDaudio by convenience not by quality.

I'm not sure I should post this because I don't want to start an off-topic discussion. But I still think we are a far ways away from moving the legitimate media industry to the Internet. I would bet that legal paid online MP3 downloads account for hardly any revenue compared to physical CD sales. But of course it's to be expected that MP3 files are very "popular" online, when downloaded illegally.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:02 pm Reply with quote
Looks like Microsuck bailed out, too.
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