Re: How Soon Before Everything Worth Watching is On A DVD

Tabernacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> With Star Wars 4/5/6 said to be coming out sometime in 2004 it has set
> me to wondering when will the day come when everything worth watching
> (from a 50's TV show to one that came out within the last year to any
> movie made in the last 100 years) can be found on a dvd?
>
> And when that day does come what will the impact be on things like
> Cable/Dish TV,Movie Plexes (and so on) when the home viewer can one
> day sooner or later have the ability to sit in his/hers own living
> room and watch a commercial free digital quality movie/tv show on a
> 200 inch plasma screen with stereo sound day or night (and with a
> pause button to boot)?

It will never happen and cannot ever happen.

50% of all movies made before 1950 are gone forever.
90% of all silent movies are gone forever.