Multimedia is failing as a form of entertainment
Digital multimedia is failing. There are so many competing formats, and it is so hard to get by leagal files. It has become too much an effort to buy a film or a song! If you were actually to find something, it would be in a format that would be not be accessible in just a few years. The industry must unite or digital multimedia will soon fail as a type of entertainment.
Dooms day predictions aside, my point is still valid. I feel personally that I do not want to by either DVDs, Blu‐Ray disks, nor HD‐DVDs. It does not matter who wins the ongoing format war. Whether it is Sony or Toshiba/Microsoft, the consumer will be the looser in any case. Give it a year or so and we will see yet another incompatible format entering the war. As long as they cannot play nicely, the consumer will always be the big looser.
When trying to create an archive of any file type it is hard to pick a format. With multimedia it is different. It really does not matter which format you pick. You will not get the files in that format anyways, and if you do: It still will not be accessible. So why bother? TV and radio is the only alternate left for watching shows and listening to music.
My big new year’s prediction is that digital multimedia—probably multimedia alltogether—will begin failing as a form of entertainment for the masses. People just cannot afford the time or money it costs to be bothered with it anymore.
Can you live without multimedia? —I am not talking about news and books. But audio and video, for the most part.
Copyright © 2008 Daniel Aleksandersen 2008-01-14 at 12:01
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