@madskillz
The iTunes shop parallel is misleading if you put it in context. A single song is about what, 5-6 MBs? You can download 5 or 6 of them or even a party playlist of 30 songs in a matter of minutes, and you're set for your evening with friends. This time was longer a few years ago when iTunes began its explosion, but never _days_ long.
On the other hand who is able to download on a whim 2 movies for an evening with friends, when each movie size is about 10GBs? Today it's just more practical for me to go to the videostore at the corner and rent home two Blu-Rays. In 15 minutes I'm done.
And as to the movies that I want to buy and keep, am I able today to download a 1080p movie with multiple video tracks, multiple subtitles and multiple audio tracks? I like to watch my movies in english, my GF prefers to see them translated, and I love director's comments (some of them on Blu-ray even coem with picture-in-picture).
Nothing of this can't be done with digital distribution. It's just a matter of software and bandwidth. We're just not there yet and I want to watch my high-def Kubrik movies today, not in two years.
Plus, nobody yet answered my previous question: if you have not Blu-ray, how is software like Id's "Rage" (or other big data-streaming games of huge size that we're going to see for sure in the next years) going to be distributed world-wide?
