10 Reasons Why Physical Media Owns!

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Published Dec 26, 2008 Mehar Gill of Format War Central provides ten reasons for the advantages of disc media.

StevePro

Dec 28, 2008 - CST 9:06 AM

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"10 Reasons Why Physical Media Owens" was a good article which essentially supported many of the discussion points which we have covered on this forum in the past. In particular,

1. People like physical - Of course they do. My collection of SDs, HDDVDs and BDs look great on my bookshelves. And I can play them any time I want. There are people on this forum who still value their LD collections. This mindset will not change. And it shouldn't.

3. You can't sell digital - You can't show off your digital collection on your bookshelf either. HDDVDs and BDs could be valuable to the right collector in the future. Or maybe they won't: it's a gamble. My collection of 45rpm doo-wop records is now worth a small fortune. Things that I bought for 2 or 3 bucks in the 1960s are now worth hundreds. $7.99 HDDVDs at Blockbuster? I'm scooping those up. 'Ya just never know.

5. Restrictions, restrictions - DRMX, you gotta be kidding. If I bought it, I want to use it when I want to, where I want to and as many times as I want to. I loved the HDDVD combo disks. I have no love for BD Digital Copy.

8 ...someone watching me - Yeah, right. If you can see them, they can see you. We discussed this before. No thanks.

Falcon01

Dec 28, 2008 - CST 6:00 PM

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For the same reasons that Steve mentioned above I would not get into downloads completely. You can't sell or trade the movies plus you don't get the HD audio tracks at the moment.

Being able to trade/sell the movies is a big deal for me.

ReaggieP

Dec 28, 2008 - CST 6:53 PM

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Yeah, renting and storing them on a 1 or 2TB disk is a waste of time.

bladerunner1

Dec 29, 2008 - CST 2:57 AM

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Dec 29, 2008 - CST 1:35 PM

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I completely agree.
Distributors though think otherwise.
They think profit margins. They don't care if you wanna show off to your friends. all they care is minimize loss and increase profit.

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Dec 31, 2008 - CST 8:11 PM

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I just don't see Digital taking off, right now to stream netflix movies or download a movie for an XBOX takes like 2+ hours before you can even watch it... Screw that. If I wanna watch something I wanna watch it that moment and I will get up off my fat ass walk to the book case grab whatever format it is on and play it. No questions ask.

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