Will nextbox use blueray?

[joeorc]

Squilliam said:

joeorc said:

HanzoTheRazor said:
@heedstone

"blu-ray will be superceded by the time the next gen comes around anyway."

This one made me laugh! What rock do u live under, dude? BD is on fire! Sales are increasing at an amazing speed. It reached mass adoption last year and is well on it's way to replace DVD. In 3 years time we will have a BD market that will be very close to complete market share of all physical media sales.

Funny, it seems like it's always the people who have never bought films on physical media and file share etc, etc their movies instead who are against physical media and claim that DDL will take over next. I wanna know how having only DDL would be more benificial, cause I cannot see how. I do know it would give companies more control over us consumers and give us less choice over all. BOTH WILL EVENTUALLY CO-EXIST. Is this so hard to see?

It is worth mentioning that Blu-ray sold more in these relatively slow two first months of the year than digital downloads did in the whole of 2009 ($199 million, including both standard-definition and high-definition, according to Screen Digest). In spite of all the continuous hype from tech sites and web pundits about the impending digital domination and the disc's demise, the public seems to see much more value in a movie when it comes on a high-quality physical support with top-notch video, audio and extras than on a downloaded video file.

Home Media Magazine

It doesn't count the whole of the market. For example 42% of Netflix subscribers streamed video on demand for at least 15 minutes in 2009. Which means of the 9.6% of U.S. households with Netflix about 4% of them did video on demand through that service. These numbers aren't counted at all towards that $200 revenue figure. Nor does it count advertising supported streaming on Youtube and Hulu and other sites. In addition to this, Porn sites are moving to an on demand model which is probably not counted either. It probably only counts direct downloads through various sites like iTunes and not the Live services where Microsoft/Sony doesn't release any numbers either.

nor does any tracking service for that matter:

they take sample's and track the data. just like any tracking service does. but the point is they have their data, you than decide if you think it's accurate enough. that's all you can do. Digital download's are not as big as physical Media an most likely that will not change for quite a while, esp. in the US with broadband speed's capped, it's just not going to happen for a long time , if it even ever does.

many people view digital download's hold less value than something that is on physical media, for Music that is slowly changing, but look how long even still the MP3 has not yet even replaced the CD and most likely it still will not replace the CD.Reason being, because many people have downloaded those same mp3's that many people for today but still burn them to CD for their car stereo's.

Digital download's have an even bigger hill to climb when it come's to movies. people still used DVD because it's simple, easy and it is something they can collect. there are so many  DVD player's in the market that people are going to be less likely to give up on DVD over digital download's because even today not everyone in the US has a fast broadband speed.Which still is not going to change for a very long time.

let alone digital downloads being the majority anytime soon, getting people to change their view of digital download's Value will be the biggest hurdle In my opinion , and one I think is most likely never going to change.

People like to collect thing's, yes you can indeed collect digital download's but the Value of that digital download's collection is another thing by in of itself.