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And this is why we can’t have nice things anymore. Why the entire media industry, whether it’s publishing or filmmaking or music, is in such trouble. They are dealing with an unprecedented amount of rampant theft from a public that simply refuses to acknowledge the consequences of their actions...

Yeah, that’s not really the same thing. I was talking about someone who didn’t care if the movie was viewed on a streaming service or a disc; you’re describing outright theft.

It came as a shock for me the first time I encountered someone who was as into the actual content as I was but who cared not one bit about what format it was on. I actually - and this shows what an idiot I was being at the time - tried to argue that I, by virtue of having the disc, was actually...

Exactly. A $50 Blu-ray player might not seem very expensive in and of itself or in context to hardware thirty years ago. But of course, a $50 BD player isn’t competing for market share against thirty year old machines. It’s competing for market share in an environment where a $20 Roku or Amazon...

No, there are still DVD-only players for sale, and dirt cheap - my local Rite Aid stocks DVD players for $20 next to the Nicorette gum. Think also about all the places where DVD players exist that aren’t being upgraded. If you’re not on the front line of upgrading your tech, you might still be...

That the cost of manufacturing doesn’t really matter here. What matters is that DVD has a substantially larger install base among users. At this point, if someone is DVD-only or DVD and streaming (that is, no BD or UHD player) it’s extremely unlikely that anything is going to force them to...

I think it’s the other way around - economies of scale will ensure that the lowest common denominator format, DVD, will be the last one around.

Most people don’t sit anywhere near close enough to their TV to get anywhere near the full benefit of what a better quality image can show. I have a 55” 4K TV, and in order to see the difference between 4K UHD and 1080p, I have to be standing literally right in front of it. Five feet back and...

They were ten years ago but that may no longer be the case. Some of the extra expense was just about those manufacturing lines being new and needing to be paid for, some was demand, and some was due to licensing costs for the format’s tech. The licensing fee is still there but the other factors...

It’s in the cloud! :D

I wouldn't sign a two year contract for cable unless there was a substantial discount for doing it. However, if I could lock in my internet rates now, I'd be more tempted to do that. With net neutrality gone, I think it's only a matter of time before service providers start jacking up the...