the download thread will go on till bluray and hd dvd death

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akuma587 said:

sieanr said:

akuma587 said:
Case and point: Here is the Pirates movie off of a torrent site in 1080p. The file size is 8.95 gigs. Did you see that: 8.95 GIGS. That would take me a WEEK to download. I would almost rather buy the damn thing than wait that long.

http://www.meganova.org/details/542047.html

I takes me about 15min to dl a gig, so that movie would be an hour and a half in the best conditions possible. My point is connection speeds are getting faster and faster while dropping in cost and increasing in availability.

At some point in the future, probably before HD becomes widespread and there is a real need for a next gen format, most connections will be fast enough for a reasonable dl time on HD films.

 

You know a large percentage of the country still uses dial-up right? I think your expectations are completely unreasonable. Most people don't understand transfer speeds to begin with, and even more people are unwilling to pay very much for the internet. Internet service providers are just fine with that too, because it means killer profits for them because they can provide something worthless for a price.

I would love to hear how many people who have dial-up have a Blu-Ray player =P  The point is new formats are decided long before the late adopters (which is what a person using dial-up is by definition) starts making any meaningful market impact.

I don't know if DL'ing can kill the formats, but the fact that some people use dial-up is a non-issue here.

@Speed Issue,

I luckily live within about 10 miles of one of the major US backbones, we get 30mb here for $20 a month.  It is still way way slower than EU or Japan speeds but its getting better slowly.  About ever 18 months to 2 years they have been raising it so I think they are in the process of doing incremental upgrades (a bad longterm plan).