Are DVD's making a comeback?

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Aspiring Mogul

Forbes magazine has an article saying Youtube will be releasing its collection of videos on DVD, and the journalist seems to think this will herald a return to the good old days of DVD players and DVD's.

It's late, and I'm not sure how to react to it. I wonder if its 1930's retro videos will be viewed, though. :D
 
I assume by "cloud" you mean internet streaming...

Interesting that some people say streaming has replaced DVD, yet distributors say streaming is not taking off like they'd expected. What are people doing?
 
The cloud... "Off site storage that you don't own or control... put all of your important files on it and trust me, they'll be safe."

I'll stick to DVD and Blu-Ray thank you very much. I do watch streaming stuff on the flix of the net, but I don't purchase digital media at all that doesn't come on some sort of physical something... you're one crash and a forgotten password away from repurchasing EVERYTHING.

I hope DVDs make a comeback, but I'll agree with the above statements that they're not all that gone. My daughter just bought me a DVD for Father's day (Lost Skeleton of Cadavra -- so proud). So the next generations aren't abandoning them fully at this point.
 
I also hate the concept of "cloud" (and the term, but that's another rant), mostly because it presumes 100% internet connectivity. Which I've never had.

But on a more important aside, knightly, that's one of my favorite films, so an awesome gift and reflects well on your daughter! You must be doing something right!
 
WHAT :lol: :lol: :lol:

Highly versatile networks that can provide any video in seconds, traded in for a MAIL-ORDER SYSTEM.

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Ah, oh god. lol. lol.

DVD is deader than dead. Blu-ray is next to die, soon everything will be internet-based, as strange and scary as that sounds. It's the way of the future.
 
fernando97echeverria said:
WHAT :lol: :lol: :lol:

Highly versatile networks that can provide any video in seconds, traded in for a MAIL-ORDER SYSTEM.

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Ah, oh god. lol. lol.

DVD is deader than dead. Blu-ray is next to die, soon everything will be internet-based, as strange and scary as that sounds. It's the way of the future.
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The article is a joke. It was released on April fool's day.

And the DVD industry is doing just fine. It'll be replaced, eventually, but I'd hardly call this "deader than dead" -- http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2011.php
 
I get all my movies on DVD. I still haven't bought a Blu-ray player yet.

I finally watched (semi-watched while editing files) a feature on-line, which was TARANTULA (the 50's movie), on the Horror Channel. The quality was so so. I really don't like watching anything other than shorts on the computer.
 
The studios are holding on to physical media as long as they can. You may have noticed the netflix streaming selection has gotten REALLY bad (now mostly TV based) the studios are pulling all their content from them.
 
Gonzo_Entertainment said:
The studios are holding on to physical media as long as they can. You may have noticed the netflix streaming selection has gotten REALLY bad (now mostly TV based) the studios are pulling all their content from them.
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We heard the head of programming for Netflix talk at NAB. They keep their numbers a secret, but he did say that hosting a lot of TV content is on purpose. From their viewing trends and what their customers watch, long form serial episodes do better than anything else. That's why their original programming is going to follow that form, and why they're going to release an entire "season" at once. People will watch a movie once for two hours, people will "binge watch" an entire series in a day/week depending on how long it is.
 
PaulGriffith said:
We heard the head of programming for Netflix talk at NAB. They keep their numbers a secret, but he did say that hosting a lot of TV content is on purpose. From their viewing trends and what their customers watch, long form serial episodes do better than anything else. That's why their original programming is going to follow that form, and why they're going to release an entire "season" at once. People will watch a movie once for two hours, people will "binge watch" an entire series in a day/week depending on how long it is.
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Some of that is no doubt true, but some is happy talk. I just talked to an executive VP here at work fresh from a meeting with the studio heads. The studios are withholding content from Netflix. They are also talking about once again lengthening the windows they have shortened over the past few years, Going back to 60, 90, 120 day windows where you can only get the physical media before it's available for streaming or on demand. Studios want physical product to stay around as long as possible. They are fighting to keep it alive.
 
I read that there is a lobby trying to make it so you can' t resell items that have copyrights like dvds, cds, bluray. They must be trying to make the old model more profitable by removing used sales. I just relooked at the article it seems to only be on foreign goods resold in the usa. Anyways, they even said the ipod as an example of an item that could be considered as something you could not resale. I guess because of software with copyrights installed on the ipod or maybe songs still uploaded to its hard drive.

I would not be surprised if they tried to make it so you could not resell your own dvds/cds/blurays in America. It is their last stand before the consumer bails on them and starts downloading on the net more stuff. They are also trying hard to make it so ISP's try to stop pirating activity.
 
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