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Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!
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<blockquote data-quote="ron g" data-source="post: 802886" data-attributes="member: 13653"><p>i love the principle of everything on a central server somewhere & just paying for streaming, once it is available.</p><p>but i do have some concerns</p><p> - niche market media may not always be available. this would be old media, as well as indie stuff, etc.</p><p> - you will be at the mercy of the operator. i.e. you may be aware of niche market media now, but not of future releases. you will only know what the operator makes available, or markets aggressively.</p><p> - you will be at the mercy of the infrastructure. unanticipated outages will mean you are just cut off.</p><p> - control of the media will be more centralised in the control of a few operators. (even if those operators will have multiple identities to appeal to various demographics).</p><p> - the operators will know exactly what is being streamed, & will focus on the popular stuff. new content will be constructed based on the elements identified as popular, & the bland, boring big media content will become even more prevalent than it already is.</p><p> - people who listen to "unacceptable" content will be flagged. possibly "unacceptable" media will be generated & made available deliberately to identify people who stream it.</p><p></p><p>so i may be moving to streaming, but will not move to it exclusively.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ron g, post: 802886, member: 13653"] i love the principle of everything on a central server somewhere & just paying for streaming, once it is available. but i do have some concerns - niche market media may not always be available. this would be old media, as well as indie stuff, etc. - you will be at the mercy of the operator. i.e. you may be aware of niche market media now, but not of future releases. you will only know what the operator makes available, or markets aggressively. - you will be at the mercy of the infrastructure. unanticipated outages will mean you are just cut off. - control of the media will be more centralised in the control of a few operators. (even if those operators will have multiple identities to appeal to various demographics). - the operators will know exactly what is being streamed, & will focus on the popular stuff. new content will be constructed based on the elements identified as popular, & the bland, boring big media content will become even more prevalent than it already is. - people who listen to "unacceptable" content will be flagged. possibly "unacceptable" media will be generated & made available deliberately to identify people who stream it. so i may be moving to streaming, but will not move to it exclusively. [/QUOTE]
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