Oh about downloading, i have downloaded tons of DVD to Divx conversions in the last 4 yrs. Honestly its not that much worse quality.
I believe whether HD downloads are necessary will be dictated by the majority, who have still not bought BR players btw, and they will decide whether the download bandwidth is worth the cost.
This is an issue just being raised in the US but most countries have had to pay extra for larger files for a while. It's really not worth it, and maybe that sums up how people treat BR as a retail purchase too.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
