Ok, again, due to some pressing personal matters, I have not been as active on here as I would have liked the past few weeks. Hopefully, that has been rectified and I am free again to contribute to the project. Now, on to this week's topic.
My preferred listening music tends to vary with time. The past few weeks I have found myself on the usual musical/showtune kick. But as I listened I started thinking about the "hey day" of musical theater and vaudeville. Now we all know that vaudeville has all but disappeared in America. Why was that? Because of innovation in radio and personal listening equipment, which lead me to think of today. There are many people who dream of making it big in music, tv and movies (see american idol and the like) But with new developments in the internet, you can get all of those genres online (and with music and movies, you can find ways to get them without paying any fees) This isn't about whether you should or not (but you can comment on that if you like) my question is will the internet send cds and dvds the way of the cassette tape? You can still find cassettes, but mainly blank ones for making copies... I could see a future where the only cds and dvds are blank and used to copy and save files found on the net. Do you think this will happen? Or is there too much money and people invested in these industries to allow it to happen? I mean, sure we all love the movie theater experience... but for $10 a person on average? Most people would rather just get a hacked version online. Feel free to send your thoughts. Thanks for your time.
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I believe that there is too much money invested in DVD and CD production to go soley with the internet. This brings me back to the topic of Net Neutrality, where we got on the topic of dial-up and whether or not it would be around within the next 20 years. I believe the reason dial-up will live on is the same reason DVD's and CD's will as well. HD DVD's have just been introduced into the stream of things within the past year and is doing fairly well financially. Of course the internet is starting to take over with movie purchases(a la Apple TV) yet there will always be those people not quite up to date with the technology of the present, or just resistant to change, wanting to stick with the old ways. Plus DVD's have a characteristic that can be applied to them that online movies don't have(as far as I know). That would the the ability to rent them! Not everyone wants to buy a movie unsure if they are going to like it or not. With Apple TV, they are forced to purchase the video if they want to watch it through and through.
With CD's, sure you can use LimeWire, Napster, Mobeus, etc. to download songs, video's, images, and so on but along with each song comes the possibility of catching a fatal virus or get caught up in a copyright infringement case(reeally rare). Besides, once the songs are on the computer, the next way to get them out and into one's social life would be by blank CD or iPod, mp3 player, etc. That brings a little more revenue in to the CD business, yet there is then the problem with the mobile devices you were speaking about.
With an iPod, sure you can put free songs onto it along with videos that steal revenue from the artists the songs and movies are taken from, but the cost of those machines are substantially more than a single CD or DVD, which I believe can make up for some lost cost. Plus, with videos, in order to get a free video onto an iPod and have it work according to the proper specs, one has to do a looot of work involving extra software to convert the movie format into a compatible version that will allow audio and video to play(personal experience...grr) and some people aren't willing to put in the extra effort to do so. This is where iTunes comes in, allowing seasons of shows and many videos to be purchased for iPod's to play. Sure, they are a bit cheaper than the actual product, but this is just a side effect from the world progressing...I do not believe there is anything that can be done about that.
I can see the internet going one of two ways. Either the quality we expect from films will decrease as there is less and less of a market to make money on, due to people downloading all of it online. Or, the copyright laws will become more strict where all p2p sharing types online would become illegal. There are many other paths that could be taken but I feel these are the most plausible.
Not entirely sure how this ties in.... but I thought it was interesting... news article on yahoo news http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8 it kind of goes along the same lines of "do you think it could possibly happen with all the money involved with (fill in the blank)"
Sorry but for some reason that site isn't opening for me...
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