Xen said:
Long, distant future, with a change in human preference and perception even. It's nice to see BR doing well. That means more good movies on it, more compilations on it... hopefully we'll see rock bands release HD concerts too!
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3-4 years maybe. It is possible right now, but you have to download quite a bit. I live in a small city in Germany, so I just got 3mb/s. I need like 2 hours to download / stream a HD movie (720p). I don't know how MS is doing it but the quality was great, even a movie like "No Country for old men" with 5.1 sound and 720p was 4.2 GB. But the quality was great. I have got like 40 HD-DVDs (bought them for 4-5€, after the death of HD-DVD) here and the difference is very small.
In bigger cities like cologne they offer 100mb/s-connection. So you can watch HD-movies in no time, if you have such a connection. I don't know the price right now, but like every new technology it will be much cheaper in 3-4 years. I don't know about the connections in NA. There won't be big differences between UK / Germany / France / Belgium / Netherlands / Austria /Switzerland. Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway ... Iceland) is superb when it comes to connections. So it will be possible in the near future. It is possible right now.
And as we have seen with music, the human preference is changing. Hi @ iTunes.
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...
