HD DVD is dead; Blu Ray will lose the war

[sieanr]

ssj12 said:

sieanr said:

ssj12 said:
People prefer to have their media stored. Movies on Blu-ray will become sucessful as HDTV's penetrate the market farther.

A hard drive is a form of storage. Plenty of people seem to be okay with it when used on their tivo. 

I was meaning a form of media that they can remove, and store for safe keeping. hard-drives are way to faulty anyways. They break way to easy. Once Solid State Drives become more norm it will be better for downloadable media. Still people will still want removable media so people can walk in and look at your movie/game/music collections. Its kind of a pride thing. Thats why I'm slowly trying to switchmy VHS and DVDs to blu-ray movies as they are released on the format. It looks better.

Did you actually read the article?

The "pride thing" would take second stage in most peoples minds when compared to the advantages digital distribution offers. The number of people who really care about hard copies is small, and was something addressed in the article.

Also addressed in the article was the issue of safe keeping, namely that its irrelevant since the business model favored by the movie studios is one of rental. I'm just assuming that you're criticizing this without having read the article.