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akuma587 on 22 August 2008
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gebx said:
libellule said:
headshot91 said:
ı dont know ıd have to say that whıle ın a few years blu ray wıll be a large marke force ı thınk downloadable movıes eıther from your computer or straıght to your set top box wıll be bıgger. Lıke psn movıe downloads ın hd 2. Thats my opınıon anyway

 

 ==> except in 4 years, BR will be mainstream

while VOD will only begin to enter mainstream.

Maybe, in 8 years, VOD will be mainstream ...

It is not a matter of place (hd will be big enought), it is not a matter dl rate (it will be enought too), it is a matter of "long term material support" that is absent in the case of the VOD.

@bolded

What???

 

There are a lot of things he is loosely referring to there which someone who doesn't follow the industry wouldn't know.  VOD NEVER gets day-and-date DVD movie releases, which in a lot of people's minds holds the format back.  This may change in the future.

One of the problems with VOD services is that there are so many, and each service carries different movies and a variable number of movies.  Obviously they share some movies.  And then not all of those are in hi-def either, which makes things even more complicated.  Some you can buy, some you can only rent, ad nauseum.

Downloads are also hampered by compression issues.  On a Blu-Ray things need FAR less compression because 1) The space is there 2) The user doesn't have to wait to download anything.

He may not have meant all those things, and may have meant some I didn't mention, but those are all important issues for VOD.

 



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