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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: feeutfo on 09 October 2012, 22:39:52
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Excluding Cinema...
How do you see your future home access to movies being affected by the increasing availability of high speed Internet? As a few examples, you may feel or expect that you will
download all your films
download if you knew/learned how
download more films but still buy the odd disc (gifts and favourites etc)
subscribe to a web based movie sevice such as love film or sky anytime as a sole supply
subscribe and buy/rent discs as normal
download a few films you wouldnt normally watch
continue to buy/rent discs, no interest in downloads.
buy discs of all time greats as you want a hard copy of those
buy more discs as you nave just bought a new home Cinema TV or Player
Or some other reason that would affect your disc consumption in a positive or negative way. Or indeed, have no affect at all.
Purpose of this is to try and evaluate how the Disc Media market will be affected by web based downloads. Be they hooky(remember, no discussion as guidelines) or legit downloads matters not.
Pole to follow. Please vote on behalf of your total household disc consumption.
Thank you. :)
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Not really interested in downloads. Although all of my music has ended up on a server for convenience, and, I suppose, films might follow eventually, it's all been ripped from original media I've bought. I don't mind buying something to have sitting in a collection, but a DRM'ed download or "pay per view" movie is worthless to me, so I won't be paying for it.
Can't lend it to my mates or sell it on if I get bored of it. Won't be able to play it any more once the technology is no longer supported. Money down the drain. Nope. I'll stick with buying DVDs / Blue Ray, thanks.
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I agree personally, although I wonder if I mite see a film and be curious. It mite be crap, it might be a pleasant suprise. So depending on price, if cheap enough, I might download it just to see. If its crap, where's the loss? ( depending on cost of course :-X )
I like the idea of a server full of films and music though. But if it's on a server, does it matter where the server is? Be it mine or someone else's via, subscription or otherwise. :-\
Although I've had to much content disapear into the eather to not have the original sat on a shelf tbh.
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Although I've had to much content disapear into the eather to not have the original sat on a shelf tbh.
Exactly. Company goes bust, or moves on, and your investment is gone. If it's on a machine I control, without DRM, that's different.
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I'll still be buying discs for Blue Ray as we won't have fast enought broadband for many years ::)
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Only ever watch the occassional DVD at home, the only ones we have have been bought as gifts for us.
Got better things to do that sit watching movies at home, much prefer the cinema, a smart privately funded one with bar and an excellent restaurant. Hate the multiplex chains bloody rip off :y
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Well,been being hard movie fan I continously collected them in the past always on actual device, video tape and all type of discs however had to get wise to the fact that tech in the world develops much faster than tech at home so slowly I gave up buying disc rather going to cinema with wifey, get online streaming or lending/borrowing films
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I voted no change. Been left behind somewhat in the technology stakes. (3G with a 5Gig monthly cap- £38 a month). Can't see anything improving that for years.
Worse we used to buy recent release DVD's from Spanish car boot/markets but the very lax laws here on counterfeit goods (I am fairly certain that is what they were) means the market has dried up. Might resort to buying discs off the web but being very selective. Latest Batman, James Bond. We had some very poor films purely and simply to get the quantity discount and save going back for a few months.
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I'll still be buying discs for Blue Ray as we won't have fast enought broadband for many years ::)
Can we have an option for "I'll buy bigger disks for my NAS box"? ;D ;D
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/2230883486.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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Nas box being like the sky specific sling box, but with greater storage, more inputs and accessed from any pc anywhere...?
Martian would it be fair to say disc consumption is not big in your house anyway...?
Nas box sounds great, but I'd feel uneasy selling all my current disc based Media as well. :-\
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Nas box being like the sky specific sling box, but with greater storage, more inputs and accessed from any pc anywhere...?
It's basically a big hard drive attached to the end of a network cable.
In my particular case, the box itself measures 200 (H) x 132 (W) x 222 (D) mm, holds 4 drives which are currently in a hot swappable RAID 5 configuration, and averages around 40W power consumption when in normal use (approx 30W when idle).
I also upgraded the RAM from 256MB to 1GB as it did show ever so slightly when the box was being accessed by more than one user simultaneously.
The spec list is endless, but if you have 5 minutes of your life you are prepared to let slip by and you like geeky crap then you can read more at http://www.readynas.com/?p=331#Specifications
Martian would it be fair to say disc consumption is not big in your house anyway...?
The kids have had "straight" ( :o :o) X-Boxes since December 2010, so that was the last time I did any real burning.
In fact, I used more discs on that one day at the Wycombe meet than what I have used all year ;D
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Every time I stream anything HD, people moan OOF runs slow ;D.
Actually, thats a lie, its when I stream HD from my Media Center to work ::)
Martian, whats wrong with your upload - I get more than that even with all the other traffic on. I thought the VM upload was 20+?
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I need a faster broadband first,
I get 600k on a good day.
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Seriously though. I've tried streaming services, and think they are not great. I prefer the postal service TBH, which also isn't related to broadband speed (give or take, 65Mb here, most days).
*BUT* rather than renting, I prefer to buy and keep (DVD, no GayRay any more). I don't buy many, certainly not as many as I used to when I gave up Pay TV - the £40 that was costing would (back then) by 2 DVDs a month... ...which was probably as many films as I watched in a month :-[.
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I need a faster broadband first,
I get 600k on a good day.
Until April this year, OOF ran on a legacy 2Mb line (thus upload (the important bit for website hosting) was 25kBs). With optimal tuning, nobody really noticed ::)
So, my-penis-is-bigger-than-yours-useless-speed-test-results have little meaning TBH ;)
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Martian, whats wrong with your upload - I get more than that even with all the other traffic on. I thought the VM upload was 20+?
Nah, only 10Mbit on the upstream J :(
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Martian, whats wrong with your upload - I get more than that even with all the other traffic on. I thought the VM upload was 20+?
Nah, only 10Mbit on the upstream J :(
Ah, my bad :-[. For some reason I thought the > 50Mb were 20.
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Martian, whats wrong with your upload - I get more than that even with all the other traffic on. I thought the VM upload was 20+?
Nah, only 10Mbit on the upstream J :(
Ah, my bad :-[. For some reason I thought the > 50Mb were 20.
Was 5 on the 50Mbit, and that got doubled to 10 when the 50Mb users got the speed upgrade to 100Mbit.
That was then subsequently pushed to 120Mb, and those of us who had the original 100Mb got the boost to 120Mb as well as a discount applied to any subsequent bills as they couldn't "double" our speeds like the adverts said ;D
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for me , no change.. As we can buy cheapo here :-X
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on a £19 a month package with LoveFilm and £6 a month for Netflix sure do like my films ;)
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Dont buy DVD's anymore (not for 10 year's now), we have a load that we never watch anymore.
Wait for them to come on the telly channels and then watch again when repeated if I like them.
Occasionally rent or watch on sky box office, but really only when mini me want's to watch something.