| steven787 said: Blu-Ray (which I love) has no PRACTICAL advantages over DVD. It has some cool features and a better image but it will cost more than DVD to produce for many more years, it will always be the same size, it will always cost the same amount to tranport, it will always be about as durable*, and it will always have similar navigation. By the time the production costs go down enough to compete on a true world wide mass market, there will be many forms of competition through digital distribution. I'm not saying that they're a failure, I'm saying that they're not going to "beat" DVD. It's gonna be around awhile and it's gonna be profitable.
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Digital distribution is YEARS away. Why are people so blind to this? You realize plenty of areas across the USA for example still don't even have Broadband capability? Do you realize that in order for digital distribution to 'take off' download speeds are going to have to significantly climb? Do you realize how far off we are in actual years from seeing the fruits of that labor?
Digital Distribution will be the way to go when download speeds drastically improve and people are willing to get over the fact that they don't own certain 'physical' objects anymore and that they could easily lose their library anyday due to HD failure. We'll see when that happens.
Ideally, Digital Distribution will take over the 'Rental' Business in the short term with a distant possibility of taking over actual sales in the long term. People still like having physical movie collections, not just names on a Hard Drive.
