i have a 2nd job in a video store, and i can assure you that the majority of customers are perfectly happy loading up their kids and perusing the aisles of a brick & mortar store, as opposed to accessing digital content.
most of the posters here are tech savvy enough to say 'sure, this seems reasonable', but i promise you, there are far more millions of people out there with zero clue about delivered content versus physical. they can barely figure out how to hook up their dvd player to their tv, much less configure a home network or a set-top box, and that's not even taking into the consideration the multitude of people still happily chugging away on dialup because they don't see the point of spending more for broadband.
and hd content isn't an issue, because there are still more analog SD sets out there than there are HD ones, again because average people just don't care, just don't want to (or can't) spend the money to upgrade, so they can't see the benefit. you know, we still get people complaining on a regular basis because we no longer stock full-screen versions of movies.
if ISPs begin capping bandwidth or tiered pricing, there will be even less enthusiasm for using services that increase the cost of a household's net connection.
while i agree that delivered content is the future direction we're going, i don't see it happening for quite some time.
And if we could somehow show them an AppleTV, you'd never sell them the $19 popcorn/candy combo add-on kit again.
People go to crap stores like Blockbuster because they don't know any better. Tivo is failing with their weak implementation of Amazon Unbox, but I think AppleTV has it figured out. Except for two things, anyway, higher-def content, and (can't believe I'm saying this) marketing.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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i have a 2nd job in a video store, and i can assure you that the majority of customers are perfectly happy loading up their kids and perusing the aisles of a brick & mortar store, as opposed to accessing digital content.
most of the posters here are tech savvy enough to say 'sure, this seems reasonable', but i promise you, there are far more millions of people out there with zero clue about delivered content versus physical. they can barely figure out how to hook up their dvd player to their tv, much less configure a home network or a set-top box, and that's not even taking into the consideration the multitude of people still happily chugging away on dialup because they don't see the point of spending more for broadband.
and hd content isn't an issue, because there are still more analog SD sets out there than there are HD ones, again because average people just don't care, just don't want to (or can't) spend the money to upgrade, so they can't see the benefit. you know, we still get people complaining on a regular basis because we no longer stock full-screen versions of movies.
if ISPs begin capping bandwidth or tiered pricing, there will be even less enthusiasm for using services that increase the cost of a household's net connection.
while i agree that delivered content is the future direction we're going, i don't see it happening for quite some time.
And if we could somehow show them an AppleTV, you'd never sell them the $19 popcorn/candy combo add-on kit again.
People go to crap stores like Blockbuster because they don't know any better. Tivo is failing with their weak implementation of Amazon Unbox, but I think AppleTV has it figured out. Except for two things, anyway, higher-def content, and (can't believe I'm saying this) marketing.
May the Apple-bashing begin.