From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 15:07:54 MST
> (John K Clark <jonkc@att.net>):
> "Doug Skrecky" <oberon@vcn.bc.ca> Wrote:
>
> > The December issue of the journal Nature Materials describes new
> > fluorescent materials that are stable, inexpensive and able to store
> > nearly 20 times more data on disk than DVD.
>
> I'd be terrified if I was in the film business, how are movie studios going
> to make money in the near future? It seems to me that product placement and
> toys related to the movie will become an increasingly important source of
> revenue, possibly the only sources. That in turn will effect the sort of
> movies that get made. It's hard to sneak in a reference to a Nokia cell
> phone in a movie about Julius Caesar and deep physiological dramas don't
> usually sell many toys. I did notice somebody is making a Sigmund Freud
> action figure but I don't think it's selling very well.
I can already buy a DVD for a reasonable price, but I still enjoy
the experience of going to a theater with a group of friends or a
date, watching a large screen with good sound, paying $9.00 for the
privilege and munching on $4.00 popcorn. Anyone who can't make a
killing in that market is a complete idiot, digital copying be damned.
And anyone who says that digital copying is hurting that business is
a bald-faced liar.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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