More like owning DVDs and Blu-Ray is beyond me at this point thanks to netflix. Typically I only watch a movie I buy on DVD maybe twice, and then never watch it again. At least with netflix I have an entire library of stuff I can see, and if I ever feel the urge to watch a movie again, I could just put it on the top of my queue. I think that hollywood is the new music industry, in that they don't quite realize it yet, but their product is being graded to be worth less, and are being forced into digital distribution, of which someone else is the gate keeper (like Apple is with iTunes).
At least it does one thing, put the independents on par with the big boys like how they are in iTunes. Ultimately I think that these sort of systems are more the demise of publishers rather than the content creators since it offers them a more direct connection with their clients.
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More like owning DVDs and Blu-Ray is beyond me at this point thanks to netflix. Typically I only watch a movie I buy on DVD maybe twice, and then never watch it again. At least with netflix I have an entire library of stuff I can see, and if I ever feel the urge to watch a movie again, I could just put it on the top of my queue. I think that hollywood is the new music industry, in that they don't quite realize it yet, but their product is being graded to be worth less, and are being forced into digital distribution, of which someone else is the gate keeper (like Apple is with iTunes).
At least it does one thing, put the independents on par with the big boys like how they are in iTunes. Ultimately I think that these sort of systems are more the demise of publishers rather than the content creators since it offers them a more direct connection with their clients.