Quote:
Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y
What can I say about CDs? I don't see CDs going out of business anytime soon at all, let alone DVDs.
Digital distribution is only "the way" cos companies need a slicker way to combat piracy lol.
As for re-downloading, what you gonna do if ur hard drive fails, which it does a lot of the time? Got electronic receipts for that? Gonna burn a hard copy of your game just to make sure you don't have to spend hours re-downloading a game?
I dunno if you're aware but broadband isn't exactly becoming advanced either, with most companies only offering an allocated amount of bandwidth every month, unless you pay much more for your 'plan'.
Either way, it is not at all a thing of the future and will only be pushed as something akin to this by people who support things like DRM and so on. It is much more effective to encode a certain "download" with anti-piracy, than a CD or DVD.
I will always want a hard copy of my movies, games & music simply because I collect them.
Not everyone is like this but there is plenty of reason for Digital Distribution to be nothing more than 'another option'.
ps. the storage solution of the future is SOLID STATE TECHNOLOGY. Right now its too expensive though.
|
I would disagree with almost every statement you have made.
CDs may not be going anywhere, but CD sales are falling through through the floor. When was the last time you saw someone put a CD in a portable player?
Maybe things are different where I live, but almost no one I know buys physical CDs, everyone buys online for their ipods.
Harddrive failure? Like I said, the big three all keep a record of what I have downloaded, so if I do need to redownload I can do it for free. Game consoles aren't the same as computers, with 400 different parts from 400 different companies running 400 different programs and constantly barraged by viruses so HD failure doesn't happen as often. They are dedicated systems. In short, I have never experienced a console HD failure nor have I heard of anyone having an HD failure on a console game.
Broadband not becoming advanced? FiOS is now available where I live, and that is the biggest advancement in a decade.
I, too, like having physical copies of things I collect and own, but that thinking is becoming outdated.