Would you be willing to change the name to something else? How abou MannerHouse or FaveMovie or something like that.

If you’re basically physically unable to make edits like that I would be very very very grateful if you helped me by removing my post. (My purpose is to remove anything I wrote on the nets, for professional reasons.)
I so need you to do this for me. Please. Contact me if you have questions.

Cosumers like to “physically own” something they payed for, and I think predictions of the demise of digital discs and other physical mediums is wrong, if not completely exaggerated.

I remember years ago when the future hype was all about the truly “paperless” office. Do people remember that? All paper transcations and forms would soon be obsolete, and everything in the common office and in the business world would become completely paperless.

What really happened wasn’t surprising. Almost everything did become digitized and computer based, but people didn’t completely trust the system to store all their important documents. People still wanted and demanded “a hard paper copy”.

Paper documents and files didn’t disappear as they predicted, but they were greatly reduced. This resulted in a dramatic increase in office efficiency.

When it comes to entertainment mediums, I think it’s obvious that formats will always be improving, and newer and better formats will continue to be introduced. We are currently in the midst of the newest format war for the next generation DVD standard. Whatever format arrives or in invented in the future, I think there will always be individuals, like myself, that will want to have “their own copy” of whatever digitial medium they’re purchasing. Maybe a portion of the population would be happy to have all their music and movies stored in some master hard drive in their home or with access thru the net, but I’m not convinced they will be the majority or consumers.

Downloaded files such as MP3s and movies on demand, will continue to make inroads in the future. But, I believe there will always be demand for hard goods: E-books vs paperbacks, downloaded movies vs HD DVDs. downloaded music vs Super Audio CD’s etc.

For myself I say, long live the DVD and CD! I’m sure in the future I will purchase the better quality discs, but any new player I purchase will have to be backward compatible to play my older discs.

Unlike older vinyl LP’s, cassettes, VHS tapes, my current collection of CDs and DVDs is not deteriorating with each play, so I hope to have them the rest of my life.

In the future, the industry will continue to make money on consumers like myself, by offering remastered older music and movies. Those I will buy.

I think CDs and DVDs will be around a lot longer than people think. The big revolution was from analog to digital formats. Going from one digital format to a better digital format will not cause the same massive change in buying, viewing and listening habits.

Well I could be dead wrong, but that’s my two cents!

Time to stuff myself with Turkey. Happy Thanksgiving!

Mike

I guess I’m sorry about the length of it, but seriously folks: if you dislike reading lengthy things so much, then what you should have done was skip ahead of it. Rather than complain about the quantity I wrote (amdittedly a lot), how about actually having something meaningful to say regarding my topic of technological obsolescence vis-a-vis Trek.
Thanks instead for saying things which amount to, “I can’t believe I read it all. That was so long! Ugh!” For those who actually took the time to comment meaningfully on the content, like Cervantes (November 18, 2006) or Mazzer – (November 17, 2006) I thank you. I may not agree with your responses, but at least you were on topic, and that’s the point.
Adam

I did comment on yours and other posts… Like 81.
Additionally, I have seen Darren comment in another thread (on this site)that was slightly negative since our “conversation”. I don’t like it, but it’s his opinion.
… happy?