A few months ago I was browsing through Best Buy and I came across a little black box called the Western Digital HD TV Media Player. I can truly say it has changed the way I watch television. It is the future in so many ways and no one seems to know about it. This little black machine hooks directly up to your HD TV with a HDMI cord. All you need to do is hook up a small USB device into one of two USB ports and through a cool UI Interface you can pick any files on the USB device and play them from your TV. It is Awesome!
I have been watching digital moves for a while now through my XBox 360. The XBox works perfectly for watching moves. Actually it works better than the WD HD TV Media Player, but it has one major fault. Microsoft XBox 360s overheat like crazy. Watch two moves in one day and you run the risk of permanently destroying your $300 toy. It just became not worth it to watch movies on it, so I looked elsewhere. But like I said, I just happened to find the WD HD Media Player but I’m glad I did. Priscilla and I use it everyday.
I have begun to collect 1080p movies on a little portable hard drive. They are Blu-Ray rips that have all the quality and without box, menus or price tag. Its just a file that to select and play from a menu. It’s incredibly easy. Now the way I go about getting these movies are alittle morally grey, but that doesn’t mean it’s not about to take over.
The Itunes Store has become a phenomenon unlike anything else. Soon, movies will be distributed the same way. The idea of digital movies is only being held off by the Money Makers to insure them people will have to buy the Blu-Ray version and then they will need to buy the digital version. It’s kinda a genius way to go about it, and the people will just eat it up. Like I said in an earlier post no media is the future of media. I have a feeling that the digital era will be apone us way sooner than those execs will want it to. As hard drive space becomes larger and larger in capacity and cheaper and cheaper in price and smaller and smaller in size, digital movies will only increase in popularity.
Another thing to consider, is that having no media releases the limits of capacity. Eventually, there will be a higher resolution TV. Higher than HD. Movies are filmed in over 4000 pixels across and IMAX is 10,000 across. High Definition is only 1080 across. TV’s have room to improve and they will. Soon movies will be produced in 3D. It is just the next thing to make the consumer buy. Again genius. I can’t wait to get my hands on my 3D OLED paper thin TV that is wirelessly synced to my entertainment station. The future is closer than we know. The economy is the only holding us back now.
