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I Just looked this morning in horror at my VHS video library of about 300 tapes.
They occupy enormous space and contain only about 500 movies.
The whole lot can probably fit in a 1TB HDD the size of a baby's hand, given the quality of the VCR.
Then I looked at another section where I have purchased DVD boxsets and recorded discs and they still occupy a large space, despite the smaller size and weight of the discs.
I am wondering now what I will be looking at in ten years from now, if I am still around. Surely something new should come up until then.
Selling movies and TV series in boxsets costs a lot of money and the shipping and handling adds to the total cost when ordering them.
Isn't it time for production companies to sell these movies in a miniaturized option such as a flash disc like a SanDisk?
I can envision the seven series of Game of Thrones to be offered in a flash, as a boxset or individual flash drive discs for each series, with USB3 and micro USB ports to connect straight to a mobile or a tablet.
This way the user doesn't need a Blu-ray drive as all they need is a USB port on their TV or other gadgets.
I realize that the media for flash is a lot more expensive than using the usual DVD disc, but the media cost is negligible IMHO to the other parts such as the plastic packaging, and shipment is a lot easier just drop it in a small envelope and pay just for the stamp instead of couriers leaving you a note to go to the nearest post office to collect the bulky items.
Can anyone think why this won't happen in the near future?
They occupy enormous space and contain only about 500 movies.
The whole lot can probably fit in a 1TB HDD the size of a baby's hand, given the quality of the VCR.
Then I looked at another section where I have purchased DVD boxsets and recorded discs and they still occupy a large space, despite the smaller size and weight of the discs.
I am wondering now what I will be looking at in ten years from now, if I am still around. Surely something new should come up until then.
Selling movies and TV series in boxsets costs a lot of money and the shipping and handling adds to the total cost when ordering them.
Isn't it time for production companies to sell these movies in a miniaturized option such as a flash disc like a SanDisk?
I can envision the seven series of Game of Thrones to be offered in a flash, as a boxset or individual flash drive discs for each series, with USB3 and micro USB ports to connect straight to a mobile or a tablet.
This way the user doesn't need a Blu-ray drive as all they need is a USB port on their TV or other gadgets.
I realize that the media for flash is a lot more expensive than using the usual DVD disc, but the media cost is negligible IMHO to the other parts such as the plastic packaging, and shipment is a lot easier just drop it in a small envelope and pay just for the stamp instead of couriers leaving you a note to go to the nearest post office to collect the bulky items.
Can anyone think why this won't happen in the near future?