Great points, Andrew. We live in an era of "good enough" and when competition is as heated as it is today, as well as budgets ever-tightening as they also are today, then the price-to-performance formula makes "good enough" even more attractive.
I am still one of those audio guys that loves my SACDs and HDCDs, as well as my cherished DVD-A audio discs but I am a relic in a day of MP3s whose convenience alone makes them "good enough." Even me the audio snob walks around and drives around with an old 120gig iPod with about 25,000 songs on it if I remember correctly. (It's just a part of my collection.)
Even the major studios are calcing the costs and learning where the trade-offs are acceptable to them in the price-to-performance ratio. I just had lunch the other day with some of the people from Disney and they told me that even a powerhouse operation like Disney is transitioning so rapidly that in one of their facilities they have been through 3 iterations of infrastructure in just the last few years.
The bottom line in it was that they are transitioning downward, finding out what gets the job done at the least cost.
Sounds amazingly like the tale told by most of the people in this forum, doesn't it?
Best regards,
Ronald Lindeboom
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