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Thread: Dvd's Comming To An End?!~

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    i just read on yahoo that the entertainment industry are going to stop making dvd's and start creating televisions that enable you to watch a movie on your tv! so we all know what this means, no more downloading of movies when this happenes at least no to the ones that are new! well atleast this means they will be making thier money, any movie i download i always go and buy like bringing down the house, or scream! if i like the movie i will buy it! but no more dvd's means no more extra stuff! and i really like dvd's! WAAAAAAAAAH! lol what do you guys think about this?


    Dee

  2. Movies & TV   -   #2
    I don't buy this at all...

    your crazy woman

  3. Movies & TV   -   #3
    lol! im so not kidding! here read this


    Virtual Delivery Seen as Death to Discs

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood will win the war against illegal downloading but the battlefield will be littered with casualties, including the DVD and CD formats as physical means of distributing video and audio, according to a Forrester Research study released Tuesday.



    The study predicts that in five years, CDs and DVDs will start to go the way of the vinyl LP as 33% of music sales and 19% of home video revenue shifts to streaming and downloading.


    Part of that stems from the continued proliferation of illegal file trading, which has caused an estimated $700 million of lost CD sales since 1999. But it will be due more so to efforts by the studios, cable companies and telcos to finally deliver legitimate alternatives like video-on-demand, Forrester researcher Josh Bernoff said.


    "The idea that anyone who has video-on-demand access to any movie they are interested in would get up and go to Blockbuster just doesn't make any sense," Bernoff said. "(The decline) begins with rentals, but eventually I think sales of these pieces of plastic are going to start going away because people will have access to whatever they want right there at their television set."


    While consumers with VOD capabilities should grow within five years from 10 million to 35 million, or about a third of all U.S. television households, the association that represents disc makers does not believe that output will slow.


    In fact, the Princeton, N.J.-based International Recording Media Assn. estimates that the number of DVDs replicated each year in North America will increase from a current 1.4 billion to 2.6 billion by 2008.


    CD replications, though, are forecast by IRMA to fall by 15%-18% in the next five years, about half the rate of decline estimated by Forrester.


    "The consensus in the manufacturing business is that there will be a decline, but we don't see as drastic a decline," IRMA president Charles Van Horn said. "We see growth (in video and DVD), and I don't think it will be because there are more pipelines to feed. It will be consumers buying discs."


    Analysts also caution that the shift from hard copy to virtual distribution could be more gradual.


    "People like walking into the store and seeing the product. It's part of the entertainment," Barrington Research Associates analyst James Goss said. "The studios would be just as happy to sell something in a streamed form or a hard disc form. But once you download it to your computer, you're probably going to burn it onto a CD or DVD, so you'd end up with the same optical storage issues."


    The Forrester report lists a number of winners and losers from the expected changes.


    Among the beneficiaries are Internet portals (news - web sites) that enable on-demand media services, broadband suppliers such as cable and telcos and the creative community, which would profit from the removal of manufacturing and distribution costs and constraints. AOL Time Warner's decision to sell off its disc manufacturing plants was said to be proof of this trend.


    Media conglomerates could be among the losers if they do not have control of emerging means of distribution like VOD, Forrester said. Such retailers as Tower Records and Blockbuster will certainly feel the pain as sales and rentals shrink, though they may be able to sustain business by associating themselves with newer on-demand services. Major retailers including Wal-Mart and Best Buy are expected to survive by shifting CD and DVD floor space to sales of media devices.


    The shift could also present several opportunities for companies if they move quickly.


    Television companies have about three more years to release shows on DVD. By 2006, it is estimated that negotiations will start to focus on making content available on cable and Internet "basic VOD" tiers.


    Movies studios are also urged to press the development of Internet-based alternatives to cable VOD for movies-on-demand.


    "On-demand media services have the potential to turn pirate losses into gains even as they break the disc-based shackles that now hold back entertainment," the report concludes.





    Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

    from yahoo! so i dont get in trouble! lol


    Dee

  4. Movies & TV   -   #4
    Intrsting, but i hardley think this is going 2 happen any time soon, wot about the big companies (HMV Virgin) that sell DVD's and shit like that, they wudn't let this happen, maybe in the distant future, but DVD's arnt going anywhere...

  5. Movies & TV   -   #5
    as i said in the temp forum:

    "people will be able to record streaming video when/if it becomes available anyway

    i suppose no dvd's or cd's just means it takes less time for media to spread, due to lack of need to rip data

    after thinking about this a little more, this proposal is rather elitist against users who have low data transfer internet solutions

    for example, how exactly does a 56k user stream video or audio?

    it does sound a little fishy"
    <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>BLAH</span>

    <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Wayne Rooney - A thug and a thief</span>

  6. Movies & TV   -   #6
    it does sound fishy, but then to the demand for dsl and high speed connections will go up and that means so will the price, and if that happens lots of people will most likley go back to dial up so in a way i guess you guys are right because dvd&#39;s are like the future they just cant stop making them, and also does this mean they wont even sell blank cd&#39;s anymore? i mean if they stop making dvd&#39;s does that mean blank discs to?


    Dee

  7. Movies & TV   -   #7
    it ain&#39;t gonna happen very soon. most people still do not have broadband and they&#39;re not going to let hollywood force them to get it. and there&#39;s the problem of the shared connection... is this video-on-demand thing going to leech bandwidth off of a regular broadband connection, so if the kids are playing online video games, listening to streaming music, or you have multiple televisions to receive different movies simultaneously... are you actually going to experience LAG while watching TELEVISION? that would be ridiculous.

    anyone who thinks streaming video is going to replace home video is out of their frickin&#39; minds, simply because DVD is not the ultimate home video format. High Definition DVD and Blue Laser DVD are on the horizon, even as we speak, promising even better quality than DVD, and certainly MUCH BETTER than you could stream over a broadband connection. consumers would simply not let this be denied to them, in favor of lower quality streaming video which is subject to the problems of internet traffic congestion.

    just because a talking head with a terribly skewed vision of technology says "this new product is the future, so say goodbye to DVD," that doesn&#39;t make it true. he&#39;s prolly the same guy who said Betamax was the future.

  8. Movies & TV   -   #8
    LOL&#33;


    so true my friend. i mean i for one would not watch tv if it lagged&#33; thats like saying we need to update our tvs like we need to our computers if they lag on a video game, these are people that obvioulsy dont know entertainment&#33; lol


    Dee

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