| FishyJoe said: One has to make the distinction between digital distribution and internet distribution. Cable companies have more than enough bandwidth. The cable companies are doing HD digital distribution TODAY and it is a quickly growing business. The cable companies can deliver the content at speeds hundreds, sometimes thousands of times faster than internet distribution. |
Yes, digital distribution is already available through your local cable company on your digital box today. The quality is sometimes good, sometimes poor, depending on how compressed it is. I think it will be 10 years or more before uncompressed HD will be streamable TO THE MASSES. While it's good that things can be delivered now, I'd bet that the percentage of people that have the equipment, money, or even availability is less than 25% of the total viewing/playing audience.
The PS3 is currently proving how hard it is to sell when your technology is ahead of it's time (blue-ray is as of yet proven the winner -- though it appears headed that way) and is high priced. The result is that it isn't massively accepted.
Why is the Wii doing so well? A number of things, really, but two important ones are price and working with the current standard -- STANDARD DEF TV -- since it is still the only thing in the vast majority of homes.
Whether it is digital or internet distribution matters not. What matters is that the technology is widely and cheaply available to almost everyone. THEN you can launch a product/service and go for wide market penetration.
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
