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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1176829" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.Yes, I'm sure, also I'm a collector too. I have around 40 TByte of Media, most of them are Series episodes (22.000++ Episodes, the majority is in HD)... But I know how much work it is to keep the collection well shaped so I can understand the people who didn't want to invest that much time...And I have written a tool that, aside lots of other useful features, can strip away all audio and subtitle tracks aside of my native language... That's a matter of taste...This was one reason but afaik a CD today costs still that much... But the main reason was, the people wanted to use &quot;their&quot; music on the upcoming IPods and have a copy of the CD for the car (to save the original), make &quot;mixtapes&quot; out of their collections and so on. All this wasn't possible due to the copy protection so most users thought, If nevertheless I'm forced to illegally download the music I've payed for&nbsp; only to use it as I like to, I even can stop paying for it and only download the music for free... Today a music CD only is a transport vehicle to bring the music home from the store. And BluRay only can survive if it will be the same for video, a medium to bring home the content and use it as I like at home...I don't believe this will happen that soon. But the HTPC software needs to change it's main goals. MP2 will be the central server for storing and collecting media and bring this to any kind of device the user has. The classical use case with a client software on a full blown PC connected to the &quot;big screen&quot; in the living room, this indeed will be decreasing in future. And for this the client is not the most important part of MP2 imho. MP2 can offer it's services far ahead of this single use case. Due to the central server with integrated ASP- and DLNA- server (both is a wip and both is partially working already) it can bring all kinds of media, even Live TV to nearly anything that can playback media... Aside this it later should be possible to bundle also streaming services here and provide them to any device in the home network. But this feature is not started yet so this will take longer until it's available... Such an amount of functionality a &quot;Smart Tv&quot; never will have as it is not that important for the &quot;masses&quot; and never enough for the geeks.. Lot of customers never use any of the &quot;smart features&quot; at all...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1176829, member: 109222"] Hi. Yes, I'm sure, also I'm a collector too. I have around 40 TByte of Media, most of them are Series episodes (22.000++ Episodes, the majority is in HD)... But I know how much work it is to keep the collection well shaped so I can understand the people who didn't want to invest that much time... And I have written a tool that, aside lots of other useful features, can strip away all audio and subtitle tracks aside of my native language... That's a matter of taste... This was one reason but afaik a CD today costs still that much... But the main reason was, the people wanted to use "their" music on the upcoming IPods and have a copy of the CD for the car (to save the original), make "mixtapes" out of their collections and so on. All this wasn't possible due to the copy protection so most users thought, If nevertheless I'm forced to illegally download the music I've payed for only to use it as I like to, I even can stop paying for it and only download the music for free... Today a music CD only is a transport vehicle to bring the music home from the store. And BluRay only can survive if it will be the same for video, a medium to bring home the content and use it as I like at home... I don't believe this will happen that soon. But the HTPC software needs to change it's main goals. MP2 will be the central server for storing and collecting media and bring this to any kind of device the user has. The classical use case with a client software on a full blown PC connected to the "big screen" in the living room, this indeed will be decreasing in future. And for this the client is not the most important part of MP2 imho. MP2 can offer it's services far ahead of this single use case. Due to the central server with integrated ASP- and DLNA- server (both is a wip and both is partially working already) it can bring all kinds of media, even Live TV to nearly anything that can playback media... Aside this it later should be possible to bundle also streaming services here and provide them to any device in the home network. But this feature is not started yet so this will take longer until it's available... Such an amount of functionality a "Smart Tv" never will have as it is not that important for the "masses" and never enough for the geeks.. Lot of customers never use any of the "smart features" at all... [/QUOTE]

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