Blu-ray could be the next UMD, says MS

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gera4390 said:

KylieDog said:
Can't be bothered reading thread, so this may have been brought up...


Digital will never be the future. Too many people require a physical purchase, something they can look at, something they can touch, something they can wrap up and put under the christmas tree, and so on.

There will always be a physical format.

 

 

I say the same. I'm happy with physical things.

Although I agree with you two about tangible media, and I strongly disagree with people predicting a full digital download medium term future, despite its impraticability for the majority of world poulation still for a very long time, the high enough number of fans of both solutions makes me think that the future will be coexistence of physical format and digital download, with neither of them prevailing due to the audience big enough to grant a comfortable survival of the other. Personally, I would choose digital download only for medium quality movies I'm 100% sure I'll be not willing to watch more than once and only paying a very small fraction of the cost of a disc.