Sony giving in to digital movie distribution = acknowledging MS was right?

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libellule said:
To repeat myself :

IF BR becomes mainstream in 2 years

Digital distribution will be mainstream in 7 years !!!

Also, PS3, ALL SKU, have HDD AND BR

On the Xbox360, NO SKU has BR

and only 2 sku on 3, has HDD

So which console offer is the more "coherent" offer at the end ???

Digital Distribution is already more mainstream than Blu-Ray.  All you have to do is look at the viewership of Hulu, one of MANY digital distribution outlets, which in a given month is SEVERAL TIMES the LTD sales of Blu-Ray.

Don't you get it?  Digital Distribution has already beaten Blu-Ray.  It already has a greater mindshare, and greater usage than Blu-Ray.  At the same time, DVD sales are up more than Blu-Ray sales (if you calculate the revenue increase/unit increase from this article, you'll see that most of the physical media gains were in DVD, not blu-ray).

Right now, the movie industry is in a transition from DVDs to digital distribution.  I am sure BR will last a while, as will DVDs (much as the CD has), but the future is written in stone, and it has already started.