FCP7, Blu-Ray, Final Cut Studio 3???

[adkimery]

Prior to the '03/04 time frame (guess that's a little more than 'a few' years) iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, and iDVD were all free just like iTunes still is today. iDVD eventually was the first to become a paid upgrade then later they bundled them all together into iLife for $50 (the exception being iTunes).


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[adkimery]

Perhaps they are hoping to wait it out- we're only a few years away from physical media going the way of the 2400 baud modem IMHO.

How many music audio tapes have you bought lately? What about CDs? Vs. downloads? You can see the writing on the wall.

While online distribution is growing I don't think it will replace physical media in the foreseeable future. It will just become another way people get their entertainment. From what I've read about the music industry in '08 online sales are still growing rapidly, but not rapidly enough to counter balance the drop in physical media sales.


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[SPZ]

While online distribution is growing I don't think it will replace physical media in the foreseeable future. It will just become another way people get their entertainment. From what I've read about the music industry in '08 online sales are still growing rapidly, but not rapidly enough to counter balance the drop in physical media sales.


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Agreed. Lets not forget downloads for HD video require fast internet connections. This might be a reality in the US, but for the rest of the World we are still years (decades) away... Blu-ray wouldn't eat on the Itunes store much: Seems like people look more for TV series content than HD movies on the store, and Blu-ray sales are more directed to movies. Downloads have the advantage, at least for TV material, to be much faster than Blu-Ray for delivery, and picture quality shouldn't be much of an issue (we are not talking masterpieces here).

Blu-ray will probably succeed in the World Mass Market following DVD's route. I don't see it, however, as a competitor to the Itunes store...