Comments on: Dell, Qflix Deliver Legal Movie Burning

By: Joy Martino

Joy Martino — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:27:04 +0000

It’s true that discs will become extinct and perhaps we will all even house all our personal and commercial content in the sky at some point. But when exactly? I don’t see it becoming mainstream in anything less than 10 years. DVD player shipments are in the billions and in like every home. They are not going away anytime soon. Look how long video players and tapes were around. In fact people still use them.

By: Joy Namel

Joy Namel — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:00:38 +0000

I actually side with the author. Perhaps with the exception of AppleTV, my Mom is not going to figure out most of the other systems to get content from her PC into the living room. My Mom gets DVDs.

By: Disruption Matters

Disruption Matters — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:35:48 +0000

I thought we were trying to get rid of physical media! CDs and DVDs are soon to be extinct. With cheap storage and increasing bandwidths it is only a matter of time that DVD players disappear.

Laptops, netbooks, and small-form PCs, like the Eee PC Box, do not include a DVD player/recorder anymore, and I do not think you miss it. Instead they add a card reader.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:26:21 +0000

I've yet to have any problems moving anything I've downloaded to my computer to my AppleTV. This includes movies, TV programs, downloaded via iTunes and elsewhere.

Once I acquired a video in DVX format and needed to download the codec. that was that. Ran fine.

While I can think of features I'd like added to the AppleTV package, fact is it does what it does as advertised.