Saturday, November 24, 2001

The entertainment people have wrapped themselves up in such a knot with digital content. They are all so afraid. They all want to stream everything instead of downloading it. They don’t understand that the internet was not fundamentally created to be a broadcast medium, and, the cost of large hard drive’s is dropping faster than dotcom stock. The new Archos MP3 (and the iPod) have 5-6 GB hard drives and cost a couple hundred $$. These guys want to stream EVERYTHING since napster let the genie out of the bottle. Too late. I’m still stuck on the idea that the only content worth streaming is Live content, and short live content at that. Now, on the other hand, I do like the XM Radio idea. That was made for broadcast. I find at home I ONLY listen to musicchoice (digital cable radio) and that’s been true for 3 years, and in my car I only listen to my 12-cd player. I accidentally left the cd-holder out when I had my car detailed this weekend and was stunned to have to listen to the radio on the way home. I don’t know about NY, but in SD it is really awful.