Video-On-Demand - future of entertainment?
Homework post for A10.
Look through the following online video platforms and see what they have on offer. Then write your opinion: Is VOD the future of home entertainment? Provide arguments as well as examples. Word limit 200-250. Deadline: May 16th, 2010.
onet vod
ipla
iplex
cineman
tvscreen
tvp
and a bit of an overview
Look through the following online video platforms and see what they have on offer. Then write your opinion: Is VOD the future of home entertainment? Provide arguments as well as examples. Word limit 200-250. Deadline: May 16th, 2010.
onet vod
ipla
iplex
cineman
tvscreen
tvp
and a bit of an overview
Comments
Recently , Internet has become very popular in our country. Almost half of Poles use the Internet every day. They are searching in Internet mainly information and entertainment. VOD is a new kind of entertainment on our “online” market , but it is becoming very popular. VOD guarantees us legal watching and downloading the latest movies and series. It is very important because most Internet users , in violation of the law , illegally download movies , series and games . Maybe in the future VOD contributes to decrease in piracy amoung our ‘online” community.
VOD is also very comfortable for us. We can watch any movie or series without going out from home. We have to only order movie or series and we can watch this film any time of day.
VOD websites offer us film and series for really small charge. We can watch the premiere episode a lot earlier than on TV. We have to only send text message for the charge. In the majority , one film costs about 10 PLN. It isn’t so much as a one movie. In particular, the we can do this without going out from home.
Summing up , VOD is the future of home entertainment. It is very comfortable and cheap . I hope that in future VOD websites will offer us more new movies and series.
Paweł Derlecki
I think that VOD isn`t the best idea for people in the future.
When we are bored, we go to friends or we are reading some intresting book but instead of the reading we more and more often reach for the Internet . It is a normal situation in the 21th century. A fact that without going out we can settle for ourselves of good entertainment surprises nobody. VOD is a solution for lazy people. When we want to watch the film we are going to the cinema and we aren't shutting ourselves away in four walls. I think that people they will stop meeting with themselves and instead of the contact with other man they will choose constant sitting in front of the computer and all the time watching online film and computer pages. Vod is a good idea for rainy days but not for spending the entire life. We can sometimes watch the film in the Internet but it isn't possible to devote friends and family.
To summing up it is possible to use vod but in moderation. Is good and very cheap solution of the boring evening. But it is computer from which the eyesight isn`t keeping well, but it is possible also to become dependent.
If I would compare VOD and tv, in my opinion VOd is winning again. I don’t like watching TV and I do it really seldom. TV offer is not interesting, only few channel are valuable, and programs or films which are really good are being repeated all the time. In effect of this, we jump between channels, waste our time, watch a TV spot, and after half day we realize that it’s time for sleeping. Most of people do it day by day. I can’t understand it, of course from time we need to “be switched off” and it’s even healthy, but this is resolutely too much, and it’s worrying. Instead of it, we may chose something in one of VOD platform, especially that choice is really variety- from old, classic film, through the documentary series, even up to latest cinema hit. To sum up VOD is great idea, and I hope it is future of our home entertainment.
Paweł Kaczmarek
On the other hand VOD is irrefutably great solution for people, who wants to improve their lives watching better films in high quality or to entertain themselves. Of course nothing is free, but VOD is cheaper than normal TV satellite. Also VOD is magnificent form of doing nothing apart from sitting in front of the screen, surfing the internet and watching, whatever we want. VOD is not only the great way of being in time with films, TV series etc, but it isolates us from society.
It’s difficult not to agree with this statement. It’s obvious that VOD is the future of home entertainment, thanks to our life gets easier, but it definitely goes in wrong direction. Soon we won’t be able to do something without the Internet.
VOD is the better way to watch our best
programmes, films or serials on the screen of our monitor than watch it on our TV.
Big inscription on the top of the VOD website is called ‘Watch whatever you want’.
We don’t have to wait for the next week to watch our best documentaries or
sport programmes. We just have to choose the right channel and then we
can pick out the most interesting stuff for us. You are the fan of your favourite
serial and you must record every episode on the DVD? You’re waisting your
time. Just sit down, relax and buy all episodes of LOST, DR. HOUSE etc.
Then watch them without adverts in the HD quality. In our TV it’s hard to
find programmes which will tell you about up-and-coming artistic films
and more ambitious movie. In the channel ‘Interviews and events’ we can
find announcements of films or intervievs with actors, producers etc.
What else VOD can offer for us? Only films? No. We can listen our music,
watch concerts of almost every singers in the world. Isn’t it great? Connect
your PC to your TV with HD quality and then be happy of great quality of the VOD films.
Of course we have to pay for admission to watch every film on the VOD websites but
it’s the cheapest way to have store of all kinds of films in our hands.
PIOTREK S
Krzysiek Janiak
I think that VOD simplifies our life because, we can't go to the movie rental if we want to see any films. It's saving time and money. But no better to go to the cinema and see films in 'big screen'? I don't know. The people are different. VOD is devourer of time- if we saw one interesting film we want to see another. In the other side, we don't go to friends, for a walk or concert because we have 'our cinema in our home'. Most likely this is good idea for lazy people. I agree: VOD has a repertoire spanning, many programms and films. It's tempting. But we can't allow to bad choice: if we have to select walk or meet with friends and VOD, we must to choice friend or something else.
VOD can't be our greatest entertainment but if we tired or simply, we have like to see something we can go and watch it. I think that everything in moderation is good for us- we cannot hog. VOD is quite good idea for lazy afternoon.
Kasia Antoszczyk
VOD is good solution for busy people, whose haven’t time to go to the cinema. Impatient fans can watching films before premiere, and lazy people can watching film at home, even in a bed. Besides it’s good way for saving time because don’t have to comply for schedule. But in frankly speaking I don’t like it.
That website isn’t solution for illegal downloading films from net. If you want to watch the film you have to pay for it and in my opinion it doesn’t worth to pay about 10 zl and watch the film on a small screen at the desk. Tickets in the cinema coast about 5 -6 zl more but I think it isn’t very much for watching the film on a big screen, sitting in a comfortable armchair with good quality of sounds. Computers aren’t good for our health specially for our eyes and spine.
Nowadays more and more people have a access to the net, and there are more and more websites like VOD. Besides the fact that I don’t like it I have to admit that VOD is the future of home entertainment. But I hope that conventional cinemas won’t turn into VOD.
AnkaP
Gabriel Rachwalak
Piotrek S