| arsenicazure said: ^^Do the majority of households have blu ray players? More households have access to broadband than bluray. I dont have any problems with HD disc formats but I can see countries with high speed connections benefiting from Down loadable HD content. japan have had 1080i for over a decade now. |
Current situation, yes, potential no, when BD players price drop, telcos will still be unwilling to bring broadband to scarcely populated areas, so physical media will be the only hope for a very large share of world population living with 56k, or 512k if very lucky, connection.
The only broadband alternative for them, satellite, is costly and having ridiculous upload speed compared to download and horrible lag, it's a connection practical only for non interactive massive downloads and nothing else, it's just more interactive than plain old satellite TV.
OTOH, if we think about households with broadband, you're right, but in a way similar to what happens with DVD and VHS: most people watches TV programs mostly live, as they are broadcast, records a few of them, and buy even less of them, those they really love and want to keep, on physical media, it happened in the past and it will keep on happening, I fully agree. BD can thrive on this small share of watched contents just as DVD did.
