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Broadband to Kill Off DVD?
Elteto writes "Just when we thought the DVD could not be any more ubiquitous, Serge Tchuruk at the Alcatel Forum in Paris announces that the days of the rapidly adopted medium are nearing their end. The increasing availability, affordability, and speed of broadband will contribute to a more efficient delivery method of media content. Will DVD join LaserDisc in obscurity?"
I still collect Laserdiscs you insensitive clod!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Netcraft confirms that the DvD is dying.
Philosophy.
Did Americans give a shit about french thoughts?
Reminds me I saw/heard something on Dr. Phil the other day about a guy who's relationship with his wife was failing because he turned to pr0n for pleasure instead of her. Is this the beginning of the end? Will all boobies get digitized and become virtual entities for our pleasure? Only time will tell...
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Video killed the radio star!!!!
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Yeah, because nobody will ever figure out a way to watch something you download on your living room TV.
You, sir, have obviously never worked in government.
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Yeh I agree. I stopped buying Xbox games this year too. Why bother when I can download them on my Phantom console.
"Will all boobies get digitized and become virtual entities for our pleasure?"
We're the last great generation!
"Derp de derp."
I have Broadband - YOU FUCKIN BETCHA!!!!
And what is my precious bandwidth?
All of 326k!!!!
Yep. And that's on a good night. Tonight is fucked -I'm barely pulling 280 right now.
Now: it's 2005, and I can barely get 326 on DSL, thanks to SBC. And these clowns want to pump 1080i into my house? Even if you compress the living fuck out of it, you're still nowhere NEAR what I can do on DSL. And Cable is BETTER?
Well, let's see: Cable's kind of dodgey around here, thanks to a 900 foot tall TV tower cluttered with all manner of telecommunications transmitters. My wife can't even open the door to her car with the remote...
But: It's a Nice Place to Grow Yer Kids Up, only without the churches and liquor stores...
So Cable sucks.
And these clowns want to put HD over broadband.
Bunch a' maroons I TELL YA!
By the time I can get enough bandwidth into the Spoilsport rat hole to do that, I'll be too old to fuckin care, and it'll be TO HELL WITH THE LOT A YOU - YA YOUNG PUNKS!
I'll be sittin' there with my DVD collection on my multi-terabyte RAID array entertainment computer, which will be in the form of the Lenovo Home Pro, which was sold to me for 99$ at Fry's 2 (the original was burned down 20 years earlier, during the food riots of 2015, during the second American Civil War.) and it frickin ROCKS - my entire music collection and video collection on a raid. I bought them, ripped then (there is NO perfect crypto) and now I get to see and hear whatever the fuck I want, when I want.
but, I hate it when i get unstuck in time like that.
And I'll still clean all the seeds out of my pot using the gatefold cover to "Close to the Edge" by Yes. Even when I'm 90.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
I will keep my dvd copy of Crossroads as well thank you. Ralph Maccio's apocalyptic guitar-off against satanic Steve Vai must sit on the shelf and gather real physical dust alongside Road House and Red Dawn. (Don't ask me why a Maccio 'c' is betwixt Swazye 'r's. You have your organization and I have mine.
Then again, perhaps broadband may kill the DVD star...
ugh, just mod me down now.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
they come on a spindle...
They want something they can take to work and leave it lying about on the shop floor without losing hundreds of pounds if their e-reader gets robbed.
What does theft of an electronic book display device have to do with Weight Watchers and gastric bypass?
We can watch 3 different movies in 3 different rooms at the same time without fear of running out of bandwidth.
Wow, you have 3 rooms in your parents' basement.