formats are dead
bluray will be the last 'physical' format. It wont last long.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 5 Oct 2010, 22:50, 1 reply)

Tell you what.
Point me towards an ISP that lets me consistently download the equivalent of ten bluray disks a month without foaming at the mouth and I'll agree that physical formats are dead.

Actually, just point me towards a media supplier that offers me cheap storage for the films I've just bought, without having to stream them from their servers every time I want to watch them, because if I do my ISP foams at the mouth. Then I'll agree that physical formats are dead.

Actually, a media supplier that offers me cheap storage for the films I've bought would be great. Hey, one that offers me cheap storage in discrete units for those films would be even better - then I could take them to a friend's house occasionally! If you find one of those, then I'll agree that physical formats are dead.

It'd be even better if they gave me pretty cases I could stack next to the TV, so other people could see what films I have without rooting through my PC/Under TV Box/Porn collection. If that happens, then... er.

Oh, wait.
( gone, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 23:17, closed)

To be honest...
It's probably only the ISP part that's the limiting factor, and you're probably right.

But fuck that, I want shiny boxes.
( gone, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 23:21, closed)

Be Internet?

( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 5 Oct 2010, 23:31, closed)

^^ this
Also: show me a storage service provider that I trust not to go bust without warning, effectively erasing all my files/movies...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 9:16, closed)

O2 (Legacy Terms)
Have downloaded over a TB some months and they don't even mention it. Now they've gone and put a 250GB traffic shape on my package for new subscribers. I'm led to believe that BE (same as o2) is still flogging the old terms and conditions.

BTW am i alone in thinking that Blu-Ray only won the format war because it has a cooler name?
(sunray18, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 11:17, closed)

I’m a great music and filum fan , and I can’t remember the last time that playing some media in my house involved taking a plastic disc out of a box.

I’ve got all my filums stored on raided and backed up hard drive. This is shared around the house via wireless and wired connections to media players or direct to TVs with media player functionality. All the media is available instantly to any or all devices.

My zen internet account allows 200gb a month with no throttling.

When I buy discs (rarely) they are immediately ripped to the data store, and given away / chucked, so no appalling ‘wall of discs’.

The online services already exist, both legal and illegal.

10 years ago you could have used exactly the same arguments about the upcoming death of CDs.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 11:14, closed)

no probs...
adsl24.co.uk

used them at my last address, they couldn't give a shit what you download, as long as you keep within the on-peak limit. Their off-peak unlimited means just that.
(Kip, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:26, closed)