{"id":3577,"date":"2009-05-10T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2009-05-10T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T01:32:42","slug":"why-physical-media-is-archaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/why-physical-media-is-archaic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Physical Media Is Archaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people consume media in a disposable method, despite the fact they want to own it.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=jowyang+harryallen\">conversation on Twitter this weekend with my new friend HarryAllen<\/a>, as I&#8217;m discussing how I consume my media, in this particular case I&#8217;m watching the final season of Battlestar Galactica, season 4. \u00a0Some in Twitter say they&#8217;d prefer to buy the DVD set, where I prefer to have it on demand, and not own or have to manage any plastic. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few reasons why I think owning physical media (DVDs, CDs) is antiquated: \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) I&#8217;m impatient, I want it, when I want it. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>2) Owning media takes up space\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>3) It reminds me of the 80s and 90s when my friends would buy shelves and shelves of VHS tapes &#8211;DVDs will be antiquated, as new formats are already coming around beyond Blu-Ray. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>4) Owning media is a liability: It depreciates over time, can be a challenge and a headache to sell\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>5) It&#8217;s bad for the environment: If there&#8217;s anything the world needs less of it&#8217;s forged plastic disks and equally bad for the environment containers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friends and family of mine like to own media libraries, but I question exactly how many times they watch it after buying it. \u00a0Perhaps it&#8217;s a Western mentality, the desire to &#8216;own&#8217; and have collections of content. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the future? \u00a0I prefer to buy via iTunes, or Amazon music (DRM free), or stream the shows live from the web, even Netflix offers on demand via the web &#8211;you don&#8217;t have to open the mailbox. \u00a0Once I buy it, I can always download it again in the future, and at some point, most media becomes free in order to give it a second life.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just about TV or movies, but applies to my CD collection too &#8211;I will never willingfuly buy a CD again if I can get it on demand. \u00a0Could this apply to books with the new Amazon Kindle? \u00a0Maybe, yet I think it&#8217;s one of the few types of media that will still retain it&#8217;s original form &#8211;sometimes it&#8217;s nice to unplug.<\/p>\n<p>Take my kid sister, who&#8217;s visiting at my house for our Mother&#8217;s day dinner, she streams content online, downloads it from the internet, and has an iPod. \u00a0I think looking at Generation Y is a clue to what is to come, media will represent the culture it&#8217;s providing for: \u00a0portable, mobile, interconnected, interactive and on-demand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To me, owning physical is the <\/strong><em><strong>old<\/strong><\/em><strong> way, the <\/strong><em><strong>new<\/strong><\/em><strong> way is relying on the network. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Would love to hear what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people consume media in a disposable method, despite the fact they want to own it. Interesting conversation on Twitter this weekend with my new friend HarryAllen, as I&rsquo;m discussing how I consume my media, in this particular case I&rsquo;m watching the final season of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/why-physical-media-is-archaic\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Physical Media Is Archaic<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rich-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}