Weird. In europe you can watch it online on the provider who bought the rights in your region. Only thing that is annoying is that they dont allow retention, so if you are 3-4 hours late you are SOL. Sad if the sold the US rights to someone who does no online streaming.
>Wow, really? I have you know I still own DVDs from 1997! and they work just fine
I have you know I still own a horse-drawn cart, and the wheels work just fine!
It really is more of a "Where we are going, we wont need wheels" situation. Sure there are some edge cases for physical media today, but they will slowly fade.
And therein lies the big risk-reward decision as an entrepreneur. I think that decision rests most heavily on whether you've got product-market fit or it's very clear to you that this is a land-grab opportunity, and you must move quickly.
Either way, funding should always be looked at as a huge accelerator. Sometimes you could start off slowly, then once the model's figured out and growth necessitates it, pull out the big guns with lots of funding to scale up (e.g. Facebook, Github, Zynga), or you make a really high risk-reward bet from the get-go like Amazon did (then again, that was also during the 90s, and it was smart since it filled a huge hole and everyone was moving fast towards dominating the internet space).
Very different environment today... I think we're going to see more and more Github scenarios in this recession. And a lot of bloodshed for startup founders trying the Amazon model today.
