The
science fiction movie I watched for the Module 4 assignment was accessed
through Netflix
using my Roku.
The current competition between DVDs and video-on-demand are examples of Red
Queens. There was a time when Blockbuster Video locations could be found as
easily as a McDonald’s restaurants. Then they had competition from mail order
DVD companies, and cable on-demand. Now Netflix, Amazon instant video, and the
many other instant streaming video channels now available through the Roku, Fire TV,
Apple TV,
or Chromecast
have almost made DVD’s extinct. I currently have one DVD player in my home, for
my son, because I get videos for him from the library. No one else in my home finds
it necessary to have a DVD player. Within the next five years DVD will be in
the same category as VHS tapes. On McLuhan’s tetrad (Thornburg, D., 2013c) (1) the
DVDs allows a view to watch a movie at anytime, it obsoletes the (2) VHS, and
rekindles (3) family home movies, and flips into (4) on-demand instant videos.
References
Laureate
Education (Producer). (2014g). David Thornburg: Red queens [Video
file].
Baltimore, MD:
Thornburg,
D. (2013c). Emerging
technologies and McLuhan's laws of media. Lake Barrington,
IL: Thornburg Center for Space
Exploration.
https://www.netflix.com/?locale=en-US
https://www.roku.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Streaming-Internet-Media-Player/oc/Fire-TV
https://www.apple.com/appletv/
http://www.google.com/chrome/devices/chromecast/#cc-apps
