| mesoteto said: its a moot point b/c it will never be as big as DVD, the trend is going towards just down loading your movies to a Hard Drive and playing them there, so .... |
That trend is far, far too small to make such a big claim. Look at music: it's much easier to put music on hard drives and listen to it because an album is about a thousand times smaller than an HD movie, allowing you to store a lot of music on current drives. Even assuming bandwidth is no concern, which it is still for most Americans, and assuming most people are comfortable enough with technology to handle that sort of thing, there are still very big challanges ahead.
And depsite the simplicity and usefulness of online music sales, they're still a small fraction of the overall music market. The vast majority of music is sold through CDs.
I would argue that neither will be as big as DVD because DVD won't die anytime soon. DVD will likely continue to dominate all other formats for the next 5 years, at least.
