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Internet to trump DVDs, blu-ray or not.(SHOW TIME)(content distribution market)
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The Online Reporter
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December 10, 2005
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The Net, we have contended for several years, is the most efficient means for distributing content--particularly movies, TV shows, music and other video--that has ever been devised. The distribution of content on physical media--whether DVDs or CDs--will soon look as antiquated as black-and-white TV shows or radios that operate on vacuum tubes.
As nature abhors a vacuum, so does the Net abhor inefficiencies; so it becomes the least expensive, most direct way to deliver content. That's why we've questioned the long term need for the so-called next generation Blu-ray optical disk technology that promises to pack more high fidelity video in the same physical space.
Now ...
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