techgy wrote:I assume that the DVD's your talking about are owned by the Church and not commercial DVD's that someone is copying and distributing w/o license:rolleyes:
Of course. This DVDs are sold by Distribution Services in Church distributrion stores, over the call center phone and from Materials Management to units and members by request at specific form...
In my opinion the tangible medium of discs is dead, Bluray included. With internet speed what is the need for discs is gone. Meeting houses are slowly getting some version of broadband internet, most connection speeds good enough to stream near or at DVD quality video.
My personal experience, in my home we no longer have Cable or DirecTV, we have high speed internet and a Roku box, and a Wii. On the Roku I get the LDS channel which streams the seminary videos, conference talks, music and more. If the church were to fully back this channel, we could install Roku boxes and wifi and never need a DVD in the building again. But the pitfalls are what if you want to show something that isn't on the site well you'd need a DVD player. I cant count the times I've been asked to pull a church video off the site and create a DVD of it for some class or stake meeting, streaming media is the way of the future.
I would like to convince my wife to allow us to purchase high speed internet via satellite (only option in rural America). She's not buying it. So it's physical media only here in God's country.
Not having a hard-line provider can make it more difficult, not to mention Satellite service is a bit slower and more expensive. If you ever get cable or fast DSL or Fiber its pretty nice, cut my monthly entertainment bill by more then half, did a whole write up on it on my blog.