| Bladeforce said: 1) a good feature for a home multimedia hub...due to vastly change with the advent of discless based media 2) the cheapest way to distribute a huge amount of data where the net is not affordable or available..there are much better compression algorithms out there which will make a standard internet connection more than capable of getting it relatively fast. Discless based media will also be rushed in as companies like Microsoft, Nintendo and also Sony judging by the latest console the PSPgo because it will cut huge costs to put movies and games onto hard media |
Seriously now, you're not making much sense
1) Yeah, people will be glad to buy a new multimedia hub in 2011-2012 that is not capable of playing at all the two optical formats on which movies have been distributed for the last 15 years. They'll be glad to use their collection of hundreds of DVDs and BluRay discs as coasters.
2) What is a "standard internet connection" in your opinion? Because in many parts of the world it's still 56k-256k b/s with dialup or crappy ADSL.
And not even the best wavelet-based compression we know today or in development will make it viable to watch 40+Mb/s HD streams on those. And not even the best compression ever conceivable will help where the net is not available at all. Also, good luck dowloading tens of GBs of game data through such lines.
