Digital Video Adoption
The idea of “my computer as my music library and my iPod is my walkman” was very quickly adopted. Conversely, it’s very interesting to see how slowly people are adopting the same strategy in regards to video. But, I see the shift starting to happen.
Personally, I’ve started ripping my DVDs (just my favorites) to my computer and purchasing more and more movies in pure digital form. I hate the thought of DRM invading my movie files, but the convenience is just too great. Sitting down with some friends on a late Saturday night, I can rent ,on demand, an HD version of almost any movie I want, through my AppleTV - many of these movies I can also purchase. The AppleTV is severely under-appreciated. I think there will be some big moves in store for the AppleTV in the near future.
So what’s holding us back from clearing our shelves of cumbersome DVD cases and praying to the encoding gods? Hard drive speed and capacity. An hour and a half movie takes up about 1.1GB. HD versions take up about three times that. We need faster and larger hard drives and we need them yesterday.
I can’t wait till the day my shelves are clear of DVD cases.
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