IGN: Why DVD's better than Blu-Ray....

[averyblund]

Ascended_Saiyan3 said:

averyblund said:
Bringing up MP3 is an interesting argument. It made me realize that for the first time in history people are actually listening to inferior quality music vs the previous decade. More and more people are ditching higher rez CDs for the convenience of being able to carry thousands of songs with them at any time. For me the same is true of SD video- its all just stored on my hard drive. I think with the every increasing size of hard drives and better encoders the same thing is likely to happen to BR.

I think things like Netflix Online and iTunes are the future because they are cheap, HD, and far more convenient.

What happens WHEN that hard drive fails?  Then you have to either re-buy that DLC or re-download ALL OF IT.  That would mean you would need to have a back-up of the back-up and hope THAT back-up doesn't fail.

OR, you could just have the optical media that's scratch resistant and call it a day (or rip it to plenty of hard drives).

 

If I buy something and it gets broken I have no qualms about getting it off one of the various torrent sites. Plus like I said a while back, a Blu-Ray burner for PC would make a nice backup solution. 8-12 movies per disc would be quite nice.