A good portion of the world does not use online services such as Netflix nor can afford bluray players.
Bluray burners and discs are still over prices.
As an inexpensive source for backing up data or watching movies, DVD's will still be viable for the next 3-5 years.
Terrible advice. Anyone who lived in New York during September 11th or during the Black Out's will recall how worthless their cell phones were. As for internet services, the reliability was less than stellar.
Land lands still provide and invaluable service for disaster events where you must contact kin.
Online data backup is a way to go but people will always need a way to transfer large amounts of data in areas where an internet connection or online services are not available. I recall many school/college machines limiting net access and downloads for example.
Furthermore, transferring gigabytes/terabytes of data is faster with a hard copy than online. Online methods leech your bandwidth and could incur your provider to cap your rates.
I would have agreed but you provided a loose argument with no target. The jist was "don't get smart phones cause something new will come out." That's all technology.
My $100 canon power shot takes pictures of social events that I attend. I have no need or interest to edit these photos or post professional mockups.
Digitals SLR's are geared towards enthusiants who want professional quality images. Now I do own an SLR but if I'm out partying with friends or co-workers, I'm not going to lug and SLR around. I'm going to slide the powershot out of my pocket to take a quick snap shot.
In terms of retail, inexpensive adequate cameras are going to rule the market, not high enthusiants units.
Remember, portability is a large factor here. We're in an age of mobility. Smaller, faster, better.
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Agreed. Paper print is dying and antiquated form of news.
As for books. Like many, I've apersonal bias to feeling/smelling a book and until every book that I read has a digital version made, I won't be investing in an e-reader (which is a good purchase by the way.)
Something worth noting is the current e-reader wars betweeen Sony and Amazon. Think Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Until a universal book format is settled, it may be worth waiting.
I do agree on this end. CD's have become antiquated with the prevalence of DVD's and digital media. Considering how inexpensive DVD's are these days, CD's serve little purpose beyond out dated machinery.
Agreed.
Agreed.
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Agreed.
I still buy DVD's and CD's. (I do use a playlist at playlist.com though. Two in fact)
