Interesting Article about Sony (and VGCharts sighting)

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I see downloadable content getting *much* bigger in the next few years, and apparently so do the companies. Tivo with Amazon's Unbox, Netflix now offers 'Watch Now' for some of its movies, AppleTV and iTunes Store, probably most Digital Cable boxes out there these days.

It is just so much easier to download movies, especially in these days of huge bandwidth. Heck, I am not sure of the exact quality of it but Netflix's looks DVD-resolution to me.

I personally believe the market for downloadable content is much greater than that for HD content. After all, did DVD audio go anywhere? Why did vinyls disappear when tapes came around? Convenience plays a *huge* part in consumer luxury purchases, and better quality only sells if the previous solution is ignoring a need of the marketplace.

So the way I see it is, the Physical Medium Media are already pretty decently served by DVD. Everyone has a player, the format is well known (and cheap, and trivially crackable). A little bit of quality difference will sell to the high end (think, people who build vacuum tube amps for their vinyl setup and use gold speaker wire) but for mass market, I think the downloadable market is *much* bigger.