DVD was not a success because movie companies just decided to stop selling videos; there are still plenty of videos available in shops. The DVD was a success because it offered a better non-degrading way of watching movies with extra features. It's comparable to the reason why the CD killed off the LP.
If the DVD had just been a video with DRM then there would have been no reason to buy. The only way any extra DRM could be brought in without draconian laws would be to make sure it came with something that was much better than the technology it replaces. I just don't see how this will happen when for the majority of people CD audio is as close to perfect as they want, as are the unprotected mp3's they've been using for years.
It's crazy to suggest that these companies can afford to stop producing CD/DVD formats just because they have something they can market as superior; the format that gets most production will be the one that sells in the greatest numbers. A lot of people have already been persuaded to upgrade vinyl and video to optical formats, but I don't see what big differences any new technology could offer that would make it worth going through all that again.
Consider what wealth did to Britain and the USA. They have created a worldwide terrorist crisis as a result of a thousand-year old fantasy of world domination. The US is a personal danger to me while it invades countries for little more reason than settling daddy's scores and ensuring oil and rebuilding contracts for republican cronies, all the while encouraging the hatred of that country's inhabitants against the western world.
But more seriously, do you think that civil or human rights were respected more in currently first-world countries when they were still developing nations, as compared to China/India/OPEC? The fact is, as these developing nations become richer their citizens become more-empowered... As far as women's rights go, it is less than a hundred years since any developed nation gave the vote to women so our record is hardly exemplary.
Human rights is another area of hypocrisy when a lot of 'outsourcing' is merely an excuse to bypass those expensive worker's rights laws...
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DVD was not a success because movie companies just decided to stop selling videos; there are still plenty of videos available in shops. The DVD was a success because it offered a better non-degrading way of watching movies with extra features. It's comparable to the reason why the CD killed off the LP.
If the DVD had just been a video with DRM then there would have been no reason to buy. The only way any extra DRM could be brought in without draconian laws would be to make sure it came with something that was much better than the technology it replaces. I just don't see how this will happen when for the majority of people CD audio is as close to perfect as they want, as are the unprotected mp3's they've been using for years.
It's crazy to suggest that these companies can afford to stop producing CD/DVD formats just because they have something they can market as superior; the format that gets most production will be the one that sells in the greatest numbers. A lot of people have already been persuaded to upgrade vinyl and video to optical formats, but I don't see what big differences any new technology could offer that would make it worth going through all that again.
Consider what wealth did to Britain and the USA. They have created a worldwide terrorist crisis as a result of a thousand-year old fantasy of world domination. The US is a personal danger to me while it invades countries for little more reason than settling daddy's scores and ensuring oil and rebuilding contracts for republican cronies, all the while encouraging the hatred of that country's inhabitants against the western world.
But more seriously, do you think that civil or human rights were respected more in currently first-world countries when they were still developing nations, as compared to China/India/OPEC? The fact is, as these developing nations become richer their citizens become more-empowered... As far as women's rights go, it is less than a hundred years since any developed nation gave the vote to women so our record is hardly exemplary.
Human rights is another area of hypocrisy when a lot of 'outsourcing' is merely an excuse to bypass those expensive worker's rights laws...