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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - WHO NEEDS BLURAY? Finally! You Can Buy Movies From Xbox Live Marketplace.

Squilliam on 17 September 2009
JaggedSac said:
^^LOL. He is a slave to his own hypocrisy.

Bungie Slave!

(Seriously I condemn them for naming themselves after an awesome thing invented by a New Zealander)



Tease.

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akuseru on 17 September 2009

Because I want it on a disk. Simple as that.



Jordahn on 17 September 2009
Squilliam said:
Jordahn said:


Discs can get scratched, and data can become corrupt and lost.  But what about "COME ON OVER" to someone elses house with YOUR copy?  Reasonably, it cuts both ways.

With your audio and likely video setup they will pretty much always want to watch it at your place. Im calling you a hypocrite!!!!

 


Now that's funny.  Because I have to admit that if you personally knew me, my setup, and my immediate surroundings of social contacts, I do have a pretty nice a/v set up.  Good one, man.



Hackers are poor nerds who don't wash.

Jordahn on 17 September 2009
Crashdown77 said:
Jordahn said:
JaggedSac said:

You guys are missing the beauty of Instant On movie purchases. You purchase the movie and it is tied to your Windows Live id. So now, you can instant watch your purchased movie from anywhere you have a browser or your 360 profile. No need for the full download. You do not have to have the movie on your XBox HD. Anytime you want to watch the movie, stream it.

Remember this is more tied to the Zune Marketplace than it is to the 360. The 360 is just another outlet to view instant on movies outside of the Zune software.

Your movie purchase is basically a toggle switch in the cloud.

But the option to fully download is there as well.


But some of us aren't Microsoft slaves...


So, the only way anyone could like this idea is if they are "Microsoft Slaves"? Really? Nice. . . take a peek at your signature for a sec.


Hey, I love Mario.  No way denying it, but when it comes to movies.  Come on! You can take a DVD/Blu-Ray disc and play it in most any DVD/Blu-Ray Player.

:)



Hackers are poor nerds who don't wash.

nightsurge on 17 September 2009

Just like I can take my Zune and dock to any HDTV and play it, or play the movie anywhere there is a PC, or anywhere there is an Xbox I can login to. In fact, the number of people I know with Blu-Ray is very slim compared to the number of people I know with Xboxes, PC's, HDTV's, or upconverting DVD players, so especially in my situation it would always be easier to go the Zune Marketplace method.



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ECC on 17 September 2009

Disc always look better.



 

   
Gabriel84 on 17 September 2009

Download will replace disc eventually... but not now, maybe 4 or 5 years later. just look at what happened to music market.



Grimes on 17 September 2009

There will be more tvs built with internet capability than built in blu-ray. The industry is moving that way. It won't be long before most tvs sold will be able to access netflix, amazon or other streaming/download service. Even Sony is building these tvs, because they too think it's the future.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

Squilliam on 17 September 2009

Australia is getting 100Mbit fibre to the home. Thats more bandwidth that the Blu Ray spec allows... So yes, internet is coming into its own.



Tease.

Crashdown77 on 17 September 2009

I've been pretty negative in this thread regarding Blu-Ray, I think. I want to say this:

1. I do want Blu-Ray, and a PS3.
2. I think Blu-Ray should be in the next Xbox
3. I like physical media.

That being said, I am really excited to see where this digital streaming thing goes. I stream Netflix in HD right now over my 15mb cable connection and it is solid and looks great! This is going to be so interesting to see where all this ends up (I personally think that we are going to have both physical and DL/Streaming video), why do we need to poopoo each other about this stuff?