HD DVD is dead; Blu Ray will lose the war

[Lord N]

makingmusic476 said:

Lord N said:

People turned to mp3's simply because the record labels wouldn't offer them what they wanted. The public was simply tired of paying $20 for CD's with two or three good songs and ten filler tracks, so they turned to downloads whether via P2P or iTunes.

The movie studios, on the other hand, have given people what they want. As far as the public is conerned, they are getting their money's worth out of a DVD, so they will still buy them.

Even with MP3's, people are still buying CD's because everyone has the players. People have CD players in their homes, in their offices, in their cars, PCs and laptops have them.

Digital distribution of movies isn't going to gain prevalence until at least ten years from now, and even then it's not going to replace physical media.

That's because they listen to crappy music. 90% of the stuff on the radio = garbage, yet it's the only stuff that the music biz bothers to promote. They may have a catchy single here and there to pique consumer interest, but in the end the artists are crap.

 Yes, I know. That's what I was saying all along.

 Digital music downloads have been increasing because people get more for their money paying $0.99 per song than they do paying $20 for 2-3 good songs via CD.

Movies are different because people feel that they're getting their money's worth, so there really is no reason to dump phsyical media in favor of downloads.

There are also other factors which people seem to be neglecting, such as server upkeep, which would make the cost of downloads nearly identical to DVD's/Blu-Ray. Broadband access as it stands right now is not even sufficient for that kind of downloading, especially when you get into hi-def movies that take up gigs and gigs and could easily fill a hard drive after just a few movies.