From a popular Windows Home Server website:
‘PS. Note to Sony – I have a PS3 too in the den, but you didn’t make the bar to sneak into the lounge. Who needs Blu-ray anyway?’ – Terry Walsh of the website ‘We Got Served’
The link and quote above are from a Windows Home Server enthusiast website. Terry is talking about the death of the Windows Media Extender, those flat pizza boxes that are suppose to be to the Windows world what the probably soon to be dead Apple TV has been trying to be for the fruit company in Cupertino. Fairly unsuccessfully I might add, at least on a scale that approaches the Wii, XBOX 360, or even the ridiculously priced PS3 for that matter.
Terry might as well be talking, however, about the death of just about every current heavily monetized form of media distribution that companies like Disney have figured out (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.); and now it’s moving away from them faster than it came into existence.
If the folks at the Yankee Group are even CLOSE to right with their prediction of 50 million connected HDTVs and 11 million digital media adapters in homes in the next 3 1/2 years, then it makes the moves that Disney has recently under taken with Hulu, Netflix and others as simply just the beginning of the end for the traditional home media market. In fairness, they also predicted their would be 30 million connected Blu-Ray players as well.
So Bob Iger and crew are certainly making moves to be on as many of those ‘screens’ as they can be. And to make money on all of them no doubt. The day of the HUGE profits on home video purchases is quickly coming to an end. That’s going to smart for the bottom line as DVD sales continue to fall until they find a new base that is somewhat sustainable for awhile until they die all together.
Sounds a lot like trying to find the demand for new cars lately no?
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