Jordahn said:
I can see you are getting more and more desperate by moving more and more away from the focus. The CD/mp3 argument for comparison to the HD optical/video streaming has always failed because these are two different industries with two different aesthetics. Audio is normaly employed in conjunction to other activities such as traveling (going to a from work, a friend, school, etc...), work (house work, in the office, mowing the lawn, etc...), and verbally socializing (like having folks over for dinner or conversing in the living room over coffee) for examples. Most of these examples also applied to past situations where quality was sacrified for convience with 8-tracks and cassettes over albums while albums still did well for a while. But to give your undivided attention to music and music only is the exception. In regards to audio and video (like watching a movie) requires more of your undivided attention, and more can be benefitted from when given both higher quality audio and video. Most people who sit down to watch a movie are more dedicated to that action in of itself for the obvious reasons. Having video on the go is more of the exception. And because of its limit in presentation size for convience, the quality for a 1080p picture on a minmum 40" HD screen with a minimum 5.1 digital decoded audio far outweighs the convience and enjoyment of a movie on a smaller scale. Now, I realize that you were first arguing Blu-ray vs. streaming which you failed to have a concrete valid argument. But the comparison to CD's/mp3's was hardly ever a valid one to begin with because of the nature and purpose of the movie viewing industry. |
I dont understand what you are trying to achieve. Your arguement was people like to collect and store the hard copy. If those people who like to collect hard copies existed (which they do) then that would apply to music for them to. The fact of the matter is the music industry is now speaking of CD death.
Moving to your arguement about the quality. The video quality I hear from people on this site and reviews say it's very good. second point Netflix has the ability to stream HD in multichannel sound, but they would require the bandwidth medium to be higher ( as in what the average user will be able to do easily.) They said this wont be available in 2008 but 2009. Put it this way by 2010 HD streaming will definately be available in 1. a higher bitrate and 2. 6.1 surround. With this in mind why the hell based off of the whole (currently arguement) would you adopt a medium which accounts for 9% of the movie industry sales in America when it's future is not certain. Downloads future is certain and it's here now improving all the time.
To save face on our arguement AND QUOTE ME, BLU RAY sales in america will fall from the release of Netflix in HD on 360 throughout 2009.
