Everyone always talks about how CDs are so expensive, and they are, but there are other factors to think about. Relative to DVD prices, CDs seem reasonable, but with DVDs, you get a lot more for your money. Extra features, deleted scenes, and directors commentaries all add to the value of the DVD. CDs on the other hand have no such added value. What you hear is what you get for the most part. If record companies could find a way to add this kind of value to their media, then I may begin to consider paying their asking price. To further my point, I've purchased far more DVDs than CDs in the last year, and it's not because I watch more movies than I listen to music, it's because I like the additional material that comes with DVDs, material that isn't distributed through P2P networks.
Alone the millimieter reference would have been as insignificant as you have stated, but in this case it was used as part of an analogy to a monorail system, and I'm sure the monorails they're running out at Disney World don't have that kind of precision.
In Orlando where I live Time Warner Cable is about to release a new digital cable feature called iCONTROL that will allow you to order PPV movies using the remote and then start, pause, rewind and fast forward. Pricing will be $3.99 for new releases and $1.99 for library classics, which makes it direct competition for Blockbuster.
It seems to me that as this type of technology becomes more widespread, the advantages of renting a DVD will become fewer.
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Everyone always talks about how CDs are so expensive, and they are, but there are other factors to think about. Relative to DVD prices, CDs seem reasonable, but with DVDs, you get a lot more for your money. Extra features, deleted scenes, and directors commentaries all add to the value of the DVD. CDs on the other hand have no such added value. What you hear is what you get for the most part. If record companies could find a way to add this kind of value to their media, then I may begin to consider paying their asking price. To further my point, I've purchased far more DVDs than CDs in the last year, and it's not because I watch more movies than I listen to music, it's because I like the additional material that comes with DVDs, material that isn't distributed through P2P networks.
Alone the millimieter reference would have been as insignificant as you have stated, but in this case it was used as part of an analogy to a monorail system, and I'm sure the monorails they're running out at Disney World don't have that kind of precision.
In Orlando where I live Time Warner Cable is about to release a new digital cable feature called iCONTROL that will allow you to order PPV movies using the remote and then start, pause, rewind and fast forward. Pricing will be $3.99 for new releases and $1.99 for library classics, which makes it direct competition for Blockbuster.
It seems to me that as this type of technology becomes more widespread, the advantages of renting a DVD will become fewer.