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17th August 2019, 23:35 | #11 | |
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I can only speak for myself here, but as I also have an iPad.
Because if what you want is a tablet, the iPad's the best one to have. Special Adaptors? Hell, an Amazon basics lightning cable cost me £6 - in the time I've owned my iPad 4, I have bought all of: 1 Griffin Survivor case - £22 4, maybe 5 Amazon Basics lightning cables, and they are spread between, iPad, my wife's iPhone, and the car. Now me personally, I'm a PC boy - although my PC is testing me on that today, but I love my iPad - and when it finally bites the dust, I will fork out for another one. I know, and accept, that things can go wrong - my wife's iPhone SE died after 20 months, but 'expensive adaptors' is not an issue I have with Apple. Perhaps the more important question for the OP is: Why did you buy a tablet and not check it's capable of playing DVD's? Quote:
If someone would like to explain to me which Android tablet has a built in DVD drive, I'm all ears. Personally, I watch plenty of streamed content on my iPad.
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18th August 2019, 00:47 | #12 | |
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Then all you need to have is just a Media Center App installed, like Kodi (for example), and navigate through the disc folders and locate the main movie file and play You can even play Audio CDs, and even write to them, on Android. It's all right here: Speaking of Apple, i'm an owner of 2 iPads (iPad 2 running iOS 6.1.3 and iPad 4 running iOS 10.3.3).....both jailbroken. And then I also have an old dusty Macbook Pro 17", which is almost 10 years old, but still going strong. I wouldn't define myself a fanboy, but rather just a simple user. I got the Macbook for free, from my boss, when I started working for his team of video editors (Final Cut Studio was still the norm, in the broadcast, back then). And then I got myself the 2 iPads. What can I say? They're great devices (the iPads) for consuming media, take notes, play video games, music, videos, movies, painting and read books. But it's just that. My only gripe, though, is that in all these years, Apple has NEVER took into consideration the fact that some users might want to use SD cards to store their files to and play them right away, without having to rely on iTunes and without having to worry about running out of space. Yes, they now sell iPads with 128GB-256GB of storage, I get it. But I would've preferred not to have to worry about running out of space, and have some of my favorite shows on separate SD cards. This is my only gripe with iPads/iPhones. Not enough expandability. For the rest, I still, of course, think that no mobile device can replace a proper built horsepower computer at all. I do a lot of Flight Simming / 3D animations and stuff like that, in my freetime. Not to mention that for job purposes, sometimes I edit stuff from home, as well. So the more power, the better.
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18th August 2019, 14:22 | #13 |
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out of the run of it lately. dvd's been dead for awhile but they still push them out rather than put the xtra's on the bd. 4K bd is still for the fancy insane people but not as much of late. I'd get 4k if I could fit a 50 inch tv in my room but I can't. I have started reading real paper books though. I use dvdfab to rip movies, sometimes the source files can be played on android, not sure about apple.
PS: I do miss the dvd easter eggs Those were fun. Like having Chicken Run on the Gladiator dvd (2 disc) lol and while I use streaming because sometimes it's convenient I really had the awful sound on most streaming movies. Streaming is to replace cable by and large.. it doesn't replace blu rays let alone 4k's
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18th August 2019, 23:07 | #14 | |
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No streaming platform will ever replace the quality of a properly mastered Blu-Ray. But it certainly will be a valid alternative to standard cable TV. I, myself, have a Smart TV in my house. And I do find that I watch much more documentaries and other programs on streaming, than programs that are on standard cable TV, except for the news. Anything else is just pure trash-TV junk. Back to Blu-Ray and other physical media, movie studios and post-production companies, will probably never abandon physical media, due to the fact that there's always the need to check if the final product meets the studios required quality standards, before it can reach a printing facility for mass production. So, as long as the big studios will keep releasing and manufacturing DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, I don't see that happen very soon. Sales of standalone players and discs might see a drop in sale, every once in awhile, due to people slowly switching to streaming platforms. But I don't think that will make the big studios switching direction at all, all of a sudden.
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When it comes to music cd's have been dead for a long while, and for those who is into it there is always vinyl.
But dvd's are dead just dead. terrible quality compared blu ray's, and you have always blu rays and now 4k if you whant the quality. But you don't get the special features on streaming which is a shame, but I have feeling that physical media will be there as long as you have a cinema. But the cinema may be in a slow death as the major movie studios decides to have their own streaming service and I would be surprissed if we go to the movies every in like years time, you get your major movie on like disney+ etc. |
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So everything is going ‘digital’ or ‘online’ we won’t own or keep hard copies of discs anymore? Even for work or studying? I find it weird I can’t record a tv programme and keep it on tape anymore for future reference. I know DJs prefer it now they no longer have to carry heavy record boxes or forget a certain record when their entire collection is on lap top
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The idea of all physical media going away has been around for probably 20 years or more now, and I had many discussions between roughly 2008-10 on another forum of mostly disaffected Amazon reviewers about these things - and most of them were convinced that books would essentially be gone by 2015, and that we would be in an almost purely digital world in the 2020s. Well the former hasn't happened - physical book sales are actually quite healthy - and I don't see the latter happening either, at least not on the scale they thought it would.
There are plenty of people - I am one of them - out there who are resistant to the idea of an all-digital world, and we're not going to go quietly. In my case and in the cases of many others, mostly middle-aged like me or older, it has a lot to do with having grown up with physical media of course, and not wanting something that has been a big part of our lives to disappear. It simply isn't the same thing to say "I heard a digital Woodstock back in the day" as it is to be able to hold that 3-disc LP and remember what store you bought it in - so nostalgia is a big part of it, and lest anyone think that nostalgia can't keep the future at bay I'd suggest looking at all the hundreds of remakes and reboots of movies that we keep getting. People cling to the past, let's face it. But there are other elements at work - there are now and have always been plenty of people who aren't just casual consumers of books, music, movies, etc, but are passionate fans, and having access to something streaming isn't enough for them. They want the "product", the shiny disc or that new-book smell. They want the extras, the pictures, the commentaries, the liners notes. Not that those don't exist in digital form, but many times certainly they don't. I know I am not the only Orson Welles fan who is irritated that the only one of his films that I can't own a physical copy of is the Netflix-funded The Other Side of the Wind - and even all-digital Netflix understands this and is aware that there's a demand, though whether they actually allow a physical release or not still seems up in the air. And - most importantly - there's the knowledge that if something is only available streaming, and isn't made available in any physical medium, it can disappear at any time - the studio/publisher/record company/Amazon etc can just decide "nope, not selling, let's yank it". Or it can get sued out of existence for some reason and unlike books or records that have been recalled but still exist on the collector's market, there won't be any (legal) way for people to obtain the now-undistributed product anymore. Not to mention that online-only products can be changed and re-edited at the whim of the owners and the original version made unavailable - something that of course is done in physical media but again, doesn't normally result in the original edition being completely unavailable. So in summary I don't think any physical media - with the arguable exception of newspapers and the more general-interest magazines - that is now at least *somewhat* popular and widely used - is going to absolutely go away anytime soon, but I do think that it will increasingly become the realm of boutique and specialist consumers and producers, as the general public doesn't much care about owning the product in the sens we used to own things, and the big corporations, especially Amazon, Netflix and Apple, see it as more profitable to go to all-streaming-all-digital formats for everything. 8-tracks aren't coming back though. |
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