Yeah, a drive that's likely to cost ~$500 at the outset is a perfectly good substitute for 8 DVDs (total cost: ~$160). Some nightmare. Yes, cost/gig will keep decreasing; yes, capacity will keep increasing; yes, DVD pricing may change (similar to the ~$100 initial price for some VHS releases). But for the moment and the immediate future, anyone who pirates a DVD by dumping the data to a hard drive for playback- and anyone who worries about that sort of piracy becoming rampant- is an idiot.
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Yeah, a drive that's likely to cost ~$500 at the outset is a perfectly good substitute for 8 DVDs (total cost: ~$160). Some nightmare. Yes, cost/gig will keep decreasing; yes, capacity will keep increasing; yes, DVD pricing may change (similar to the ~$100 initial price for some VHS releases). But for the moment and the immediate future, anyone who pirates a DVD by dumping the data to a hard drive for playback- and anyone who worries about that sort of piracy becoming rampant- is an idiot.