Will DVDs Be In Your Future?
Mark Cuban, co-founder of Broadcast.com and current Dallas Mavericks, HDNet and a bunch of other things owner, writes about
HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future.
It’s simple in theory, and there are obviously some things that need working on, especially for people to rely on hard drives more. Reliability would be concern #1. Sure, a DVD can get scratched, but the odds of a DVD going bad compared to my hard drive crashing are pretty low I’d assume. Some would say that’s why hard drives are becoming so cheap to begin with (made cheap, priced cheap). Anything that I’ve ripped from tape hasn’t been to dvd, it’s to mpg2. Same thing in viewing, but I’ve got the files all saved on a big hard drive, and when I can, backed up on another. It’s not close to cost effective right now, but it’s much more flexible for viewing then DVD and it also is portable in mass (one of my external drives could probably hold 60 DVDs and many more “DVD quality” movies).
The worst part of the whole discussion is you know the best technology won’t be backed by the big companies, only the most profitable. All we can hope for is backwards compatibility, but I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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