ROTF via USB Stick

I just wanna snip this because this is not what I want. I don't want a drawer filled with 4 GB USB Drives. As much as I'm not a fan of a large material DVD shelf, I much prefer the well organized shelf.

Also, doesn't matter the quality, I prefer watching movies and TV on my TV; not my computer.

If they want to get serious with this idea, they could come up with a special USB design for easy filing, with the name on the edge as well as the front.

It doesn't have to be any harder than filing Gameboy cartridges was back in the day.

Also, I agree, it should be possible to play these on a TV. It shouldn't be that big a deal for manufacturers to put a usb socket on a dvd player or on the TV itself.

It won't happen. The same thing happened to Betamax, Laser Discs, Mini Discs, UMD, and HD-DVD. The format wars have proven it time and time again.


Most likely this will be the reality before anything else new:

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Nor do I. 25-50 GB downloads that I don't even physically own are something I don't want either. Blu-ray is the medium for me, thank you very much.

if it's an actual purchased download (vs streaming a file off a server) you own it just as much as you do a physical disc, it's just 1s and 0s and the likelihood of a total unrecoverable HD failure is probably fairly =/= with the chances of scratching a disc beyond playability.

i think in the coming years you are going to see the 2 rapidly converging, most likely to the point that your TV is essentially going to be a computer.
I mean, look at that new 27" iMac, that's as much a TV as it is a computer. and the 360, PS3, appleTV, Roku box and others are all bringing interweb media to your television in new and different ways.

just like the HD format war, it's going to take a while to be hashed out (and for bandwidth to hit the point it needs to), but ultimately physical media is an endangered species. I'd predict the scales will tip in less then 10 years, but also think there will be some type of physical media available for a good 10-15 years beyond that.

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I agree with the notion that optical media is gradually dying. The HD-DVD vs. Blue-Ray format war was irrelevant before it started. There is just too much potential trouble with anything that plays optical discs, between the laser dying or the disc being scratched accidentally versus a copy on a flash or SSD media. Buying on a flash drive is probably a go-between for people who can't download from the internet for whatever reason yet. Games will do the same thing, still digital downloads, but you will be able to pick up a copy at the local Walmart if your ISP won't let you download it.

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Can the movie on this USB drive be transferred to an iPod or iPhone? Or ANY portable device for that matter.
I still don't understand why ROTF didn't offer a digital copy.


As for the format debate above, I'm on the BD side fo sho.

That whole disc scratching argument doesn't really carry a whole lot of weight considering it applies to regular DVD's too, and look how that turned out.

Tech savy consumers might like the idea of a digital copy on a flash drive, but the market has already determined that disc based media is what sells the best for movies. All of the gloom and doom tossed at Blu-Ray hasn't been sticking very well considering all the growth it has seen in just the last year.

I call FAIL on this too. It just doesn't make any sense. It is not a good deal for a compressed computer format of the movie or for a 4 gb flash drive...put the two together and it doesn't get any better.

This idea seems more like a cash-grab from the un-saavy consumer (can we say wasted money on impulse X-mas present purchases?) rather than providing an enhanced or intriguing new product.