Comments on: Optical Media is Dead… Thank God! http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/ Seeking Insight and Knowledge In All I Can... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:48:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/comment-page-1/#comment-7892 Ben Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:02:45 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/#comment-7892 AMEN! Ignore the shouts and honking of the monkeys commenting here, optical is DEAD. It deserves to die and is on it's deathbed as we speak. Sure, it served a purpose, but now its time to move on. There are tons of technologies that are on their way out once the infrastructure and the usage hits a tipping point: land-line telephones, Fax Machines, the combustion engine and film based recording media. The real question is WHY does the death of optical scare so many? Sure it will probably linger as a niche tech, the way vinyl has. But it's dead. @Sam I distribute video, audio and photos to 1000s of people each day. I use bittorrent, facebook, youtube, email and FTP. EVERYONE has a HDD. AMEN! Ignore the shouts and honking of the monkeys commenting here, optical is DEAD. It deserves to die and is on it’s deathbed as we speak. Sure, it served a purpose, but now its time to move on. There are tons of technologies that are on their way out once the infrastructure and the usage hits a tipping point: land-line telephones, Fax Machines, the combustion engine and film based recording media.

The real question is WHY does the death of optical scare so many? Sure it will probably linger as a niche tech, the way vinyl has. But it’s dead.

@Sam I distribute video, audio and photos to 1000s of people each day. I use bittorrent, facebook, youtube, email and FTP. EVERYONE has a HDD.

]]> By: Sam http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/comment-page-1/#comment-7726 Sam Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:15:11 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/#comment-7726 Optical media is the single most greatest invention in external computer storage in history, can you imagine what life would be like if optical media had not been invented? Secondly please don't compare a mp3 to a CD. MP3s were meant to be listened to on cheap stereo music players not high fidelity speakers. CD audio will always have the best pure quality that cannot be replaced by compressed MP3s. Finally, hard drives are cheap but they are not distributable. If you had to distribute a video to 100 people would you buy 100 hard drives? You're obviously thinking to much about how nice it would be if the world were only flash. But flash is also a environmentally destructive. More resources are wasted created hard drives and flash chips than producing plastic recyclable optical media that use organic dyes. You say that digital downloads don't harm the environment but what you don't realize is how much energy network servers waste per hour by just being turned on. All forms of technology damages the environment, the destruction from the internet is just not immediately visible. Optical media is the single most greatest invention in external computer storage in history, can you imagine what life would be like if optical media had not been invented? Secondly please don’t compare a mp3 to a CD. MP3s were meant to be listened to on cheap stereo music players not high fidelity speakers. CD audio will always have the best pure quality that cannot be replaced by compressed MP3s. Finally, hard drives are cheap but they are not distributable. If you had to distribute a video to 100 people would you buy 100 hard drives? You’re obviously thinking to much about how nice it would be if the world were only flash. But flash is also a environmentally destructive. More resources are wasted created hard drives and flash chips than producing plastic recyclable optical media that use organic dyes. You say that digital downloads don’t harm the environment but what you don’t realize is how much energy network servers waste per hour by just being turned on. All forms of technology damages the environment, the destruction from the internet is just not immediately visible.

]]> By: GG http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/comment-page-1/#comment-7019 GG Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:30:57 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/#comment-7019 agreed agreed

]]> By: No optical? what a joke! http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 No optical? what a joke! Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:12:23 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ellis-benus/optical-media-is-dead-thank-god/#comment-2926 You guys can't be serious. Clearly none of you have any understanding of economic factors. For one, optical discs are still WAY WAY cheaper for their capacity than any other medium. Second, they are still the most reliable format for storage. Many people like to actually collect and store their music and movie collections, not just download popular singles on their ipods that they will likely throw away once a year for a new model (ipods and cellphoens are a much greater environmental hazard than optical discs). I would die before I trusted my media collection to a hard drive, nevermind an ipod. Once flash is vastly improved and WAY WAY cheaper, I would consider switching over to that, but then and only then. Also, many people still like to buy a physical object that delivers their media in a nice format like a graphically rich music cd. Only the rich or well off can afford to do away with optical discs. The majority of the world BY FAR still uses optical discs are their primary media "holders". Sure, optical will die in less than 10 years, but not anytime soon, and certainly not because Mac decided not to use it anymore. Mac also solders graphics cards directly to the motherboards of most of it's computers. I seriously doubt that this will kill the stand alone graphics card industry. What a joke. You guys can’t be serious. Clearly none of you have any understanding of economic factors. For one, optical discs are still WAY WAY cheaper for their capacity than any other medium. Second, they are still the most reliable format for storage. Many people like to actually collect and store their music and movie collections, not just download popular singles on their ipods that they will likely throw away once a year for a new model (ipods and cellphoens are a much greater environmental hazard than optical discs). I would die before I trusted my media collection to a hard drive, nevermind an ipod. Once flash is vastly improved and WAY WAY cheaper, I would consider switching over to that, but then and only then. Also, many people still like to buy a physical object that delivers their media in a nice format like a graphically rich music cd. Only the rich or well off can afford to do away with optical discs. The majority of the world BY FAR still uses optical discs are their primary media “holders”. Sure, optical will die in less than 10 years, but not anytime soon, and certainly not because Mac decided not to use it anymore. Mac also solders graphics cards directly to the motherboards of most of it’s computers. I seriously doubt that this will kill the stand alone graphics card industry. What a joke.

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