B-Floppy became A-Floppy, which gave way to CDs, then DVDs, and now Blu-ray. The future of digital media seems to be in online video streaming, but could there be a market for hard-copy transfer? What format would it take? The answer is both surprising and entertaining (pun intended). To begin, let’s take a look at …
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Feb 21 2010
Warner Bros. Heralds Future of Video Rental
The Blockbuster closest to my house recently sold, shuttered, and gutted, grimly foreshadowing the end of the video-rental store era. Like Sony Walkman cassette players (do my younger readers even know what these are?), VHS has all but vanished. DVD and Blu-ray, too, are trembling before the inevitable growth of online video streaming. Like a …
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