The looming death of DVD?
3 comments August 8th, 2008
There’s an interesting Crosstalk feature over at the Onion AV Club examining the future of the DVD format – specifically, is there a future for it at all? The general consensus? Don’t toss out your player just yet, though with Blu-Ray, Video on Demand and all sorts of other crazy technology lurking aroud the corner, it might not be long before its obsolete.
Writer Scott Tobias sums up my fears over the Great Format Switchover so perfectly, I could’ve written this sentence myself:
“These days, I gaze up at the towering wall of DVDs in my home … and it’s like a looming existential crisis. Why oh why did I invest so much time and energy (and money, though far less than non-professional critic might have spent) accumulating hundreds upon hundreds of DVDs that are going to look eight-track tapes to my infant daughter one day?”
Why indeed? Probably because, nearly obsolete or not, I still love those damn discs!
Any thoughts?
