dharh said:
Cypher1980 said:
dharh said:
Read the EULA for those digital copy services. Most of them have the right block your access to all movies you 'purchased' digitally. Valve is not legally obligated to give a way to unlock games games you've downloaded should they shut down. In fact i'd almost bet my left nut that they will not in fact follow through on that promise, but i'm not a betting man.
There will always be a market for digital _and_ physical mediums. Unfortunately, when digital comes into full bloom, physical medium will rise in price.
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No no not digital ownership just one time streaming rental.
Its where it seems to be at in Europe at the moment.
We have a few BIG providers in the UK (Sky, BT, Virgin) and they are mostly pushing streaming rental.
I got to admit its pretty good as an experience. Sit back select the movie you want to watch. Confirm your going to be charged a set amount and then watch the movie.
No waits no trolling down to the rental shop, just a movie as and when you want it. HD is also available but at a premium.
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I do agree with you there. I seriously wish netflix didn't have to wrangle so hard to get digital copies of movies.
Thats where I think the physical medium comes in. Watch hundreds of movies via a streaming subscriptions. Buy the physical movie if its super awesome. There are still a majority of people who cannot and will not for quite a while be able to stream 1080p.
Blu-ray fills the gap of people wanting to _own_ a physical copy of an awesome movie and wanting to watch it in 1080p if their bandwidth services aren't good enough.
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I think this is true of countries with poor infrastructures. However in the UK so long as you are not totally rural in locale then 20Mb Broadband is available for about 20 bucks a month.
I dont know how good the Broadband is in the States but I would assume its comparable to Europe.
