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DVD is well on the way to becoming the dominant format in home cinema, but can it ever be the only format? Many more people have access to a video player than a DVD one, hence the, still very successful, home video market.
Given some time (and it probably wont be too long) the relationship between DVD and video will be similar to that between CDs and cassettes in the music industry. Most people seem to buy their music on CD but cassettes are still very much available for those that don't have a CD player.
With the massive installed user base of video players can pre-recorded videos ever be phased out completely, forcing people to make the change to DVD?
I have always said that the DVD format was not the best choice for the next generation of films storage and I've still to be proved wrong. It was the best that was available at the time the decision was made, even though there was a far superior format just around the corner (read up on FMDs, if you're interested - assuming they have actually survived the onslaught of interest in DVD), but suppose this format was unveiled and marketed as an eventual successor for DVD - would it survive? Not a chance.
Sony's Minidiscs and Phillips (was it Phillips?) Compact Cassettes were both originally marketed at the next stage in music media and, while the first enjoyed (and still enjoys, to some extent) minor success, the latter vanished without a trace. The user base for the previous two formats was so large that people resented the idea of having three different music formats on the go at once to cater for their existing and future collection.
The same would happen if a change was attempted in the home cinema market. People have all their old films on video and buy all of there new films on DVD while, at the same time, maybe buying some of their existing catalogue on the superior format as and when they see fit (especially if it's a much better product).
DVD video is a great leap forward and deserves the success it has had. However, given comparisons to the music market, it is unlikely to become the only format for a LONG time - if ever.
Given some time (and it probably wont be too long) the relationship between DVD and video will be similar to that between CDs and cassettes in the music industry. Most people seem to buy their music on CD but cassettes are still very much available for those that don't have a CD player.
With the massive installed user base of video players can pre-recorded videos ever be phased out completely, forcing people to make the change to DVD?
I have always said that the DVD format was not the best choice for the next generation of films storage and I've still to be proved wrong. It was the best that was available at the time the decision was made, even though there was a far superior format just around the corner (read up on FMDs, if you're interested - assuming they have actually survived the onslaught of interest in DVD), but suppose this format was unveiled and marketed as an eventual successor for DVD - would it survive? Not a chance.
Sony's Minidiscs and Phillips (was it Phillips?) Compact Cassettes were both originally marketed at the next stage in music media and, while the first enjoyed (and still enjoys, to some extent) minor success, the latter vanished without a trace. The user base for the previous two formats was so large that people resented the idea of having three different music formats on the go at once to cater for their existing and future collection.
The same would happen if a change was attempted in the home cinema market. People have all their old films on video and buy all of there new films on DVD while, at the same time, maybe buying some of their existing catalogue on the superior format as and when they see fit (especially if it's a much better product).
DVD video is a great leap forward and deserves the success it has had. However, given comparisons to the music market, it is unlikely to become the only format for a LONG time - if ever.
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Er..thanks anyway.
*wonders why the question*
We've all scrubbed up well here y'know.
Except for Smoked Kipper, but we wont go there
*wonders why the question*
We've all scrubbed up well here y'know.
Except for Smoked Kipper, but we wont go there
I predict that DVD will remain until such time we can download movies straight into the cerebral cortex and view them internally.
SmokedKipper wrote:
As I said I would, I have today spent
> much of my lunch hour looking through every film and DVD magazine
> that I can find in WH Smiths and didn't see one called 'Film'. There
> was a Total Film and a Film Review though so I concentrated on them
> first.
I looked through them (particularly around the 'page 45'
> area) and saw nothing. Just a couple of articles on The Mummy
> Returns (also on the cover of some of them), a couple of player
> reviews and an advert featuring a quite attractive girl with an
> impressive cleavage (so thanks for moaning!).
Total Film is one I found and checked and there is also a Film Review (with the word 'review' also smaller than 'film'). Cheers for the link. The web site claims to give a full contents list of each issue (past and present) but in fact it seems to list little more than what is on the cover anyway.
I think you may be right about this being the mag in question. However I've checked all of the current magazines and found nothing except what I listed before. Anyone (trustworthy) got any back issues?
As I said I would, I have today spent
> much of my lunch hour looking through every film and DVD magazine
> that I can find in WH Smiths and didn't see one called 'Film'. There
> was a Total Film and a Film Review though so I concentrated on them
> first.
I looked through them (particularly around the 'page 45'
> area) and saw nothing. Just a couple of articles on The Mummy
> Returns (also on the cover of some of them), a couple of player
> reviews and an advert featuring a quite attractive girl with an
> impressive cleavage (so thanks for moaning!).
Total Film is one I found and checked and there is also a Film Review (with the word 'review' also smaller than 'film'). Cheers for the link. The web site claims to give a full contents list of each issue (past and present) but in fact it seems to list little more than what is on the cover anyway.
I think you may be right about this being the mag in question. However I've checked all of the current magazines and found nothing except what I listed before. Anyone (trustworthy) got any back issues?
I was checking out magazines the other day and decided to find this 'film' myself.
There isn't one called just film, but there is total film. With the total being just a small word in the top left hand side of the word film. So this could quite easily be mistaken as just film, or those that read it might just call it film.
Think about now thats what i call music - people call those albums now.
Not that I own any or anything :)
And I'm not accusing anyone of anything again, it's just that I had the idea.
There isn't one called just film, but there is total film. With the total being just a small word in the top left hand side of the word film. So this could quite easily be mistaken as just film, or those that read it might just call it film.
Think about now thats what i call music - people call those albums now.
Not that I own any or anything :)
And I'm not accusing anyone of anything again, it's just that I had the idea.
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