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Review – Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access

Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access, Wheeler Winston Dixon, 2013, ISBN 9780813142197

Like it or not, streaming movies and music is becoming an increasingly important part of all Internet traffic. This book gives the details.

Why shouldn’t a person be able to pay a few dollars to play a movie at home, when going to the movies or buying the DVD costs so much more? In the theater, does the projectionist load a film cartridge into a 35mm projector and turn it on? Increasingly, the answer is no. Most theaters have switched to fully digital systems. The movie is downloaded from the distributor, along with an electronic code. That code may be good for a single presentation, on a specific day. If the correct code is not available, or if it does not work correctly, then it is not displayed.

Fewer and fewer movies are being shot on actual film, because fewer and fewer theaters have movie projectors. Unless there’s an arthouse theater nearby, it’s virtually impossible to watch older or lesser-known movies on an actual film. When was the last time an old or obscure movie was available at the local multi-theater megaplex? If whoever has a theatrical copy of that obscure old movie doesn’t think it’s lucrative enough to put it on DVD, there’s little that can be done about it. Soon the only way to watch movies of any kind will be through online streaming. Depending on your point of view, this is the natural progression of technology or it is the end of the world.

What Netflix is ​​doing to the movie business, Apple is doing to the music business, and Amazon is doing to book publishing. Amazon now sells more Kindle copies of books than paper copies. Facebook is little more than a way to suck up people’s personal information and sell it to advertisers (Google Glass, plus new facial recognition technology, will make that much easier). Facebook has created more than 80 million fake accounts. The hope is that the author, for example, sees his account already configured and decides to use it. Therefore, the author says that he will never post on Facebook.

This is a very interesting book. It may be common knowledge to some, but I learned a lot from him. It is not technical and very easy to read. It’s also well worth checking out.

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