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| Phil M wrote:
A few alternative thoughts, just for fun but a different approach.
IMHO the mass market will decide if their is a 'winner' or not, not the small group who populate the various AV forums. ... What I would do is something like a rental deal with a media provider like Netflix/Blockbuster/Hollywood, for example a player and 4 movies a month for a 2 year $40month agreement. The average guy on the street has a low entry cost, doesn't care about the format and is guranteed to get accesss to movies. But just a second, can't I get this from cable/sat? Y |
I hear ya Phil!
I agree with you on that rental thing too. There is a little known rewritable disk format coming from Hitachi called holographic versatile disk it's going to have like a terabyte of storage.
I did a little research (on various forums, including this one) to see how ready people are to embrace HD movie downloads and it seems like outside of the main fanbase of media servers reception is rather lukewarm. Of course that's no scientific inquiry by any means.
Just think of high speed internet downloading your movie from Amazon, iTunes etc and storing the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy on one HVD. Now
that would end the format war.
On the Philips V2000, I've never even heard of it. In the days of VCR I used to be a an in - home TV / VCR / Stereo repair man in the US. I've seen Beta and mostly VHS but never the V2000. Laserdisk starting really coming in when I got out of that business.
Funny... back around 1993 I decided there was no future in home A/V installs so I became a Windows NT network admin which seemed like a sure bet. Today I think the opposite might be true. If you're in the right place you could probably really clean up as a CEDIA HDTV calibrator, HT installer. But IT depts are filled to the gills with resumes that claim expertise in Windows operating systems.