scorptile said:
i have to agree with you. BR is a fad right now. actually its not even that cause its not sellin very well. not as well as dvd itself did back in teh late 90's. and now with "digital copy" there is more money away from BR. next will be full downloadable HD movies either directly to your pc to where you can burn them or direct downloads to your DVR or whatever divice your gonna be using. there already is a netflicks downloader for the 360 and an individual box if you wanna buy it. so as quickly as BR has arrived it will leave and the ps3 will hurt even more then it has. |
First of all you'd be surprised to find out just how many people who doesnt know how to burn a disc, or even download a movie. Second of all, your logic is flawed. Excuse me for asking what are people supposed to burn their hd movie on if not a blu ray?
Lets be honest there are alot of problems with downloading as well
1.Now if people were to put their movies on a hdd, they'd have to move the damn thing into their living room and hook it up to some sort of media center everytime they want to watch a movie. This is a hazzle for many people and some(if not many) doesnt even know how to put the video file onto their HDD. This can of course be learned, but it doesnt really make it easier for people.
2. What about places were you do not have internet? what are you supposed to do? its no way to get the movie, UNLESS you actually go to some place(store), either download the movie there or transfer it trough a USB 3.0 port at a vending machine of some sort. But then again you'd have to bring your hdd to get the movie. Can you imagine the lines of people, hooking up their hdd everytime? And also if they were to use vending machines, it would be a limited amount of movies avaliable at each machine(for now). imo it would be alot easier just to buy a blu ray disc.
3. cables, hdd means cables, this is tiresome.
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Hd movies you download doesnt possess the same quality as Hd movies on a optical disc since the data is compressed. THis is not good imo. And still even if the data is compressed the movie would still be 20 gig and that would take a long time to download. Hell if the movies were to be on par with blu ray the movies would take around 50gig. Regular cable gives you what, Like 25mbits max? It would take around 4 hours to download if your max speed is topped all the time. And if everyone were to download a 50 gig movie all the time, the studios would have to have some insane servers in order to give you max speed, meaning big servers cost, but hey the problems doesnt end there. If you and your neighbour were to download a movie at the same time, and you had the same ISP your speed would be greatly reduced due to a joint connection point for your cables. Thats right shared internet speed. But hey lets say you download a 50 gig movie at max speed in like 4 hours, that means you wont be able to use internet at all in that period of time, which can get pretty annoying. My point being, i dont think Download services will be able to achieve market domination until people get fiber. Which pretty much rules out the problems mentioned above. However fiber cables doesnt just appear over night. FIber is expensive and it takes a lot of time to install. To improve the infrastructure on such a grand scale will be costfull and time consuming. Dont even think it will be done in 8 years.
5.what to do when your hdd fills up? buy another one=? it would take alot of space and it would give you extra cost fee lets say around every 20 movie. If you have 1000gig that is.
as you can see alot of problems.
