Co-founder of several developer magazines (I subscribe to php|architect), Marco Tabini may not able to speak for the mainstream when it comes to consumer technology. Regardless, his evaluation of digital media and comparison of above- and below-board availability is an interesting read. And even though it deals with video, most of the same conclusions apply to audio formats as well.
Once you ditch cable and rely on DVDs and streaming, you realize two things: TV channels as we now know them are an incredibly obsolete idea, and that the differences between DVDs and digital (and the insistence of the entertainment industry on physical media and copy protection) is misguided when it comes to technology—really misguided.
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