LDS Media meets Technology

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:30:46 +0000

I read an article once about three categories of consumers. Essentially, the first group is called the early adopters—consumers who are eager for the next big thing, and quickly embrace it, even if it means paying full price. There’s the second group, the “main-stream” group who won’t pay the premium price to be one of the first to own whatever technology or gadget. These consumers generally wait until the technology seems more solid and worthwhile before buying. The last group is the late adopters, and at times this group is resistant to changing technology. The technology in question has to stick around a long time for this consumer group to buy into it.

So where do LDS consumers fall in? No matter what, I don’t see anything wrong in being part of any of these groups. With three different products or technologies, we might be in three different groups anyway. But perhaps it’d be good to evaluate:

What do you own? Have you bought into Blu-rays? Waiting for downloads to be more solid? Staunch supporter of DVDs? Or still hoping to find movies on VHS?

For books, are paperbacks/hardback books your thing, or the Kindle? eReaders are gaining ground but might be obsolete as more portable devices are integrated to do everything—play music, watch movies, read books, surf the web, etc.

Do you buy CDs, or only digital music, or both?

Does what you buy and what format you buy it in depend on where it comes from? For example, if it’s particularly valuable to you, do you insist on a tangible version of the product? I enjoy movie soundtracks, and find that for a full soundtrack, I want the physical disc, complete with artwork and case. But for a pop song on the radio, I’m content to download it from a service.

Partially why I thought I’d blog about this today is to see where we all want LDS media to go. Are we waiting for Saints and Soldiers on Blu-ray? The only LDS film on Blu-ray so far is Emma Smith—My Story. Will others follow? Do you want them to? Are you looking for Jesus the Christ on the Kindle?

Perhaps we can open this up with comments. Please post and share your thoughts. Pardon the delay in your post showing up—due to spammers, we have to review posts to make sure they’re legitimate.

Thanks, and till next time–

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LDS Media meets Technology