Is Pantip Plaza still an IT centre?

[Changwatchap]

I sold a camera there last week. Very dead. A combination of selling obsolete goods, and there being more IT vendors elsewhere.

The area is still super busy, you have to expect one day soon it'll be repurposed for something else.

[NYGuy816]

Uh-huh, it's no longer Bangkok's IT/electronic hub. But I'm keen as to what will happen after the renovations and so-called facelift.

[ExpatOilWorker]

They are changing all the escalators with brand new Schindler escalators. I think it is a major upgrade and soon Pantip will be back in its glory days.

[Merylhighground]

I think it is a major upgrade and soon Pantip will be back in its glory days.

I think Panthip's 'glory days' are long gone now that almost everyone nowadays, seems a whole lot more internet savvy; more so P2P savvy, so even a backpacker just passing through, has access to P2P sites/fast internet for their music, film or TV show needs as well as sites like Amazon/eBay getting their act together in recent years, as regards to getting deliveries to Thailand.

I shudder with horror at times when I think how much I used to blow on my monthly visits to Panthip (and at how much nagging I would get from the missus) especially when we lived upcountry on a poor internet connection, in the meantime from those days to now, I, as so do many others, have now got several HDDs chock full of my favourite shows/films/music and so on, no need to buy their often second rate rip off crap from Panthip.

I think virtually every trip back to BKK would see me returning discs to Panthip which either wouldn't play, were just damaged, blank or even the wrong content, so in a way they shot themselves in the foot by making a song and dance about replacing substandard rubbish to the extent that I began to research more in the the world of P2P and Amazon.

When I had got the entire X Files/ Fawlty Towers/Blackadder/Carry On series for free, without a jump, stammer, skip, freeze or blip, I didn't look back and quite have quite enjoyed spending the silly amounts of brass I used to put aside for my entertainment needs on other, more deserving, useful things. Before our recent move the wife worked out the amount I spent on discs which had lain untouched for years and it wasn't pretty reading either....I couldn't even give them away....

[ExpatOilWorker]

I think it is a major upgrade and soon Pantip will be back in its glory days.

I think Panthip's 'glory days' are long gone now that almost everyone nowadays, seems a whole lot more internet savvy; more so P2P savvy, so even a backpacker just passing through, has access to P2P sites/fast internet for their music, film or TV show needs as well as sites like Amazon/eBay getting their act together in recent years, as regards to getting deliveries to Thailand.

I shudder with horror at times when I think how much I used to blow on my monthly visits to Panthip (and at how much nagging I would get from the missus) especially when we lived upcountry on a poor internet connection, in the meantime from those days to now, I, as so do many others, have now got several HDDs chock full of my favourite shows/films/music and so on, no need to buy their often second rate rip off crap from Panthip.

I think virtually every trip back to BKK would see me returning discs to Panthip which either wouldn't play, were just damaged, blank or even the wrong content, so in a way they shot themselves in the foot by making a song and dance about replacing substandard rubbish to the extent that I began to research more in the the world of P2P and Amazon.

When I had got the entire X Files/ Fawlty Towers/Blackadder/Carry On series for free, without a jump, stammer, skip, freeze or blip, I didn't look back and quite have quite enjoyed spending the silly amounts of brass I used to put aside for my entertainment needs on other, more deserving, useful things. Before our recent move the wife worked out the amount I spent on discs which had lain untouched for years and it wasn't pretty reading either....I couldn't even give them away....

Nice and very true post. I have also bought well over 1,000 DVD over the years, some of which I still haven't watched. Silly idea to have a Movie collection. Now it is download - Watch - Delete.

Another observation. My first laptop with a 500 MB HDD was $7,000. Now you can get a nice laptop with a 1 TB HDD for under $700. That is a 20,000 fold reduction in price.

Edited April 25, 2016 by ExpatOilWorker