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Even worse for disc rentals: the convenience of Netflix actually killed video stores, just as they jumped to high-quality Blu-Rays.
#TRANSFER RECORDINGS FROM ROGERS PVR TO USB MOVIE#
Since then, movie disc sales have been drastically reduced by the comparable easy availability of video streaming. All the destruction was happening from low-quality MP3 recordings being very easily available by download. Oddly, at the time, the ability to do perfect digital music copies from CD to CD-R was not really destroying the music industry. Instead, people loved to buy commercial tapes and discs as presents, the ownership of a TV-recorded movie having all the cachet that "music recorded from radio" had enjoyed since the cassette tape came out in 1969: none.īut their paranoia broke out again with digital recording: it would be of perfect quality, eliminate the stigma, and wipe out their disc sales.
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Shutting down that free market, into a literal company store of bad choices, was not in consumer's interest.Ĭontent providers had already been proven wrong when they freaked out at this, industry spokesman Jack Valenti comparing the VCR to the Boston Strangler.
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People had been recording TV for 20 years when the HDTV switch came along the function was a very free and open market, as many firms competed to come up with the best recorder features, quality and price - and that free market worked its magic, the products kept getting better. One would think they'd be compelled to help Disney's bottom line only at gunpoint, their own interests being to give their customers the best TV experience they could. The cable/satellite companies had no stake of their own in whether Disney movies could be copied and the purchase of discs avoided. The same could have been applied to cable movies.Įven participating in that restriction of user rights to copy was already a new legal innovation. Great technical agonies had been already done to ensure that the new HDTV video plug, "HDMI", would be required to include "HDCP" - high-def copy protection - so that you couldn't just take a video signal from your Blu-Ray and make another Blu-Ray. There was no objective, technical reason to extend this oligopoly from TV signals to the consumer electronics of video recorders. Canada has a very tight little oligopoly of TV providers: Shaw, Rogers, Bell, Telus - few enough to meet in an apartment bathroom.
The change shows us how little oligopoly differs from monopoly where it counts.
Now they are gone from stores, at least in Canada. The DVR was so beloved, the culmination of decades of home video-entertainment recording into the most-convenient possible form, it was called "God's Machine" by the chair of the FCC. But it is.įor starters, the consumer electronics industry, normally so eager to sell us computers, laptops, pads, phones, and watches the industry that for 30 years has sold us VCRs, competed over Beta vs VHS and Super-VHS (look it up, it existed), then sold us DVDs, DVD recorders with DVD-R and DVD-RW, then sold us DVRs that recorded standard definition, then sold us Blu-Ray players of increasing degrees of quality and declining prices.these days, they've utterly given up selling us anything that can record video. Cord-cutting shouldn't be any more of an "adventure" than buying a toaster. I'm not into conspiracy theories, but you'd swear there was one against cord-cutting. My Cord-Cutting Adventure My Cord-Cutting Adventure
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