Cypher1980 on 23 March 2009
| Rpruett said: Follow the money trail. No one in the movie industry has any desire to move to a strict DD format or even primary DD format. Retail stores (Like Best Buy) hate Digital Distribution. It just cuts into their bottom line and product lines. No one in the industry has any reason to NOT support Blu-Ray right now. If you want movies to show off that new TV you just bought (In all of it's glory)? You need to get a Blu-Ray player. All you see is HD TVs for sale now and the Blu-Ray movie rack is rapidly expanding. It's only a matter of time until it's a full blown takeover. Digital Distribution is several, several years away from mainstream viability and usage. It also will require a mindset change in consumers and more reliability of hardware. Which only increases the amount of time until it can reach the mainstream consumer. |
I agree with everything apart from the last paragraph. Digital Distribution is here now and already commercially viable even mainstream.
My SKY+ box supports it my PC supports it, my Xbox supports it, my neighbours BT vision box supports it and my best friends Virgin Media PVR supports it.
Maybe in America things are different, as I understand they have comparitively poor internet speeds and access.
I just see Blu Ray co existing with DVD for many years to come and DD to coexist with them both for much longer as a rental delivery channel.
