Re: Thoughts on iTunes Extras/LP

hey eric

i couldnt agree with you more.

before posting this question, i looked around at a few other threads that talked about the death of discs and that everything will be downloaded in 4-5 years. i agree that DVD is still king and i think it has a lot of life left in it. i've rented a few BDs and i've been very disappointed with the menus and design compared to the very mature state of DVD authoring. where my clients are coming from is this weird in-between place in regards to HD. making a DVD is automatic, but when they start talking about HD, BD is not an automatic. in my small town, i only know one other person with a BD player that isnt a PS3. i think its a chicken or the egg thing. i think this Christmas will decide the future of Blu-Ray. but my clients are currently scared off by the lack of players - that they won't sell the minimum replication run. i used to work at an action sports production company that, even though everything has been produced in HD for over 4 years now, have not release a BD because they think they won't sell the minimum run.

i think the main hinderance right now to downloading is there's no common format. iTunes Extras could be a future glimpse of this common format since its based on free protocols like H.264, HTML and Java.

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Eric Hansen - The Audio Visual Plumber - www.avplumber.com