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redspear on 15 December 2008
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MikeB said:

@ redspear

I think many people will prefer to own their favourite blockbuster game or movie on disc, I think both streaming/downloading can co-exist with disc formats (like PlayTV actually uses the PS3).

With regard to competing, streaming will get faster and cheaper, but will every potential consumer be online with a good enough connection and interested in this. I think not.

If pricing is a major concern, it should compete with DVD first as reaching that level of streaming quality is more easily achieved and a cheap mass market solution at this point. Full quality 7.1 lossless audio with 1080p Blu-Ray visual quality is much harder to achieve, HDTV TV broadcastings aren't even on par (1080i with lossy 5.1 audio).

 

 Well let em being by saying that 7.1 adaptation rate is far behind that of HDTVs. It is a nice option to have but the people I know who work with audio and set up conferences and concerts still prefer a good stereo signal. When McIntosh comes out with a 7.1 surrond system we can discuss lossless quality and playback(not that that is necessary for the consumer).

Audio is even worse then video lossless and lossy matters even less there especially at 96Khz.

 

DirectTV now does 1080P albeit heavily compressed. TBH even fewer people will recognize the diffence between 1080i and 1080P and most HDTVs being sold are still 720P so it is null point anyhow.

 

The issue of cheaper has to do with distribution and authoring and digital distrubition wins in that regard.

The general consumer is not a videophile(a point i was trying to make abotu the CRTs) is not an audiophile(a point I was trying to make about CDs and Mp3s). Do not know what 95% RGB color space means. They buy a TV put it on the wall and watch TV in stretched format nad are happy.

As time goes on they begin to realize little things that could make there picture better and as more HD programming becomes available and they watch more of it than they will crave more HD content and will be more willing ot pay for it.

 

Blockbusters will do well early adopters are always willing to spend more money on tech and tend to be the first to buy so BRs will more then likely have higher sales at first and larger drops where DVD sales will be more flat. They need to work on theirlicensing rules and they need to intergrate FCP studio into their plans..Adobe is already there.