I’m home with my family for the holidays and thought maybe we all could go see National Treasure 2 which opened in the theater this week. It lucks like a fun movie but I mainly wanna see it because the Library of Congress is featured in it. Neither of my parents have seen the first National Treasure movie so we thought we’d rent the dvd.
So we go to one of the video rental stores in Lansing, MI but of course they don’t have it because I’m sure every family who wants to see National Treasure 2 who hasn’t seen the first one is probably having the same thought this weekend.
I guess I just ask myself. Why do we still have video rental stores?
No… Netflix isn’t the answer. The desire to have this video wasn’t planned out it was on an impluse so I don’t wanna wait the 2 days it takes to get dvd in the mail from them.
Why are we still dealing with the pains of physical media like dvds anyhow?
You could get the first National Treasure off of the Apple iTunes store but my family isn’t going to sit around my 13 inch MacBook and watch it.
I’m sure I could download it illegally from bittorrent (and probably the 2nd one too) but I’m not going to do that… it’s illegal and you’d still be watching the movie from a computer.
If we had an Apple TV, that wouldn’t help. Apple TV’s only work with fancy high def tv’s.
It’s just frustrating. There is media out there that we want to consume on a television. We’re willing to pay money to consume it but we can’t get ahold of the media in a satisfactory way for this to happen.
Someone is losing money here. How can we fix this? There needs to be a solution to this problem.
Here’s hoping that Steve Jobs will announce a better Apple TV at the Macworld Expo.
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