Subj : Re: Hola
To   : The Godfather
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Apr 27 2023 15:28:57

  Re: Re: Hola
  By: The Godfather to Nightfox on Thu Apr 27 2023 04:34 pm

 >  Ni> I feel like there will probably always still be a market for physical
 >  Ni> media. I don't think online streaming can always be relied upon, as
 >  Ni> sometimes they have problems with their service, sometimes your
 >  Ni> internet connection might drop out, and sometimes the online streaming
 >  Ni> services remove content that you might want to watch.
 >
 > I do hope so.  There had been talk within the Consumer Electronics industry
 > for years about eliminating physical media in place of cloud based content.

When I was at Broadcom several years ago, we were integrating a smart card (and other memory card format) reader/writer logic into our network controllers and there was an initiative from the laptop OEMs to make media on the smart cards available to view/read in all system/power modes (e.g. even when the laptop was closed/sleeping). The reason being: Hollywood was going to start distribution of movies on SD cards instead of Blu-ray Discs and they wanted people to use their laptops as movie viewers in low power modes (no-OS running). That never happened. It looks like network *distribution* of media is here to stay.

 > I bookmarked Plex Media Server as  search for me to check out later.

I've been running a Plex server for several years too and have thousands of titles in there plus all my home movies. We get to watch my friends' titles too. Definitely recommend it.
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