MikeB said:
And note that I live in a country with the second highest percentage of broadband internet adoption. Ranked number 1 is Denmark. Only about half of US and Japanese households have a broadband internet connection. According to research we can expect average internet speeds to double about every 2.5 years. At such a rate that would mean within about 8 years it may actually be feasible for me to stream high quality movie content. However I believe many ordinary people will just choose the cheapest internet solution available to them, just to browse the web, chat and read some emails. I think it will be an enormous task to get these people to pay more instead of just buying Blu-Ray discs, which will be cheap to mass produce and have come down in price considerably by then. In some countries like Greece and Brazil people with a broadband internet connection are just a small minority. IMO don't buy into Microsoft's hype, they know HD DVD is likely to loose. Nomatter how much of a lost cause it becomes, they likely want to confuse and devide the market for as long as possible. Like I said in the past, I believe this war to last well into 2008. |
So in 2.5 years your speed may double? Seems your wait to buffer a hd movie and view it should be manageable. As to purchasing a game, let it DL the night before, set it for when you goto work, what ever time you have away. Perhaps they will release 1/2 the files before the game is on sale. You know pre download alot of it. If anything, people today purchase and download games. They have a lot of services already making money. I think its only a matter of time. Perhaps even a little more than 5 years but digital downloads are already happening and the sky is the limit. The thing I don't know: in US most if not all? broadband is unlimited download there is no limit to the amount. I know in some places you are caped?
