by O.Supreme » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:40 pm
Huh? You can find working VHS players at thrift stores for under $10....The technology is still there. However I have converted any VHS film I have that I know doesn't exist on any other form yet to digital, but its on my hard drive (I still don't trust cloud based back up...). But DVD's are still thriving 20 years after their initial release (I purchased my first DVD 19 years ago, in 1998, Simitars TOMG). And they are still fully backward compatible with Blu Ray (and I assume 4K?), so they will still be playable for the foreseeable future.
I cant fathom previously owning a film or TV show, then not having the ability to watch it. Its why for the most part I got out of Video games. Having a library of games I could not play because the machines capable of playing them got too old and broke down to play them, and the current ones were not BWC infuriated me, so I, with few exceptions, gave up on the whole industry.
The standard Compact Disc is itself 35 years old. But has progressed from recording only audio, to Video, and the quality of the video and capacity of the discs keeps on increasing. Of course more streaming and digital libraries will become prevalent, but I think businesses are smart. I don't think they are going to stray (at least in terms of physical media) from a format that continues to be profitable. Some people have built up Music and Video libraries with tens-of thousands of titles. The VHS to DVD move hurt me a little, but if some physical form was to become the new standard and did not play the standard discs of the industry over the past 35 years, I think there would be a huge backlash.
There are no more good TV Shows, only ones that haven't disappointed me yet.