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Vetteman94 on 20 July 2010
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Cypher1980 said:

In the states its high prices and low bandwidth.
dharh said:
Cypher1980 said:
dharh said:

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.

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.

Your kidding me ? How can the States be so far behind ?

Well its mainly because there has never been any legislation to push our infrastructure to the next level.  There is some now,  but it will take 5-10 years before that is realized.  

I have alwyays found it odd that the US is this far behind, but its one of the main reasons why I keep saying DD movies will not succeed.