How long will Blu ray last

[Feylic]

Squilliam said:

Feylic said:

Squilliam said:

rafichamp said:
Longer then DVD, reason why? Peoples internet speeds are still too low for downloading content from the web. Digital Distribution still needs about 6 more years to come over physical distribution.

Blu Rays maximum delivery is something like 35Mbps. If you had a 50Mbps internet connection you could easily manage as good if not better than Blu Ray quality sound + video over the internet even accounting for less than advertised speeds. Most Cable/DSL companies are pushing for 100Mbps to the home. Realistically you could probably get away with 30Mbps internet as most consumers couldn't tell the difference between similar bit rate but well encoded content, or if they do they don't particularly care for the difference.

Wow, where are these speeds available? I currently have 1Mbps and that was JUST upgraded! The fastest in my area is for regular residential use is 7. Average North American download speed is only at 7Mbps, so yeah, it's gonna be a little while before digital distribution goes mainstream.

In a few countries around the world, but that figure is increasing every year with greater investment in infrastructure. Cisco for example is increasing the speed of their switches considerably every year for instance.

In a few countries around the world, for a few people. They are increasing every year, that's for sure, but they won't be fast enough for some time still, like the first guy said, 6 years +