selnor said:
I agree that disc is mighty. The problem is the average consumer. From what I understand UDOD is predicted even more expensive to release than what Bluray was. And the public just havent in 6 years adopted it a a successful rate. I ave Blurays but cant lend tem to my friends because they dont have Blu Ray players. I know more with Netflix subscriptions than I do with Bluray players. Luckily Broadband in my city is readily available at 20 - 100 mb. With no caps. In fact Ive not seen a provider with capped for 5 years now. Virgin, Sky, BT, Talk Talk etc all offer fast Broadband wit no caps at amazing prices. I pay 8.99 GBP/month for 20mb Broadband ( average around 18mb ) with no cap through Talk Talk. And thats not an offer. I dont think there will be a successor thats close to Bluray adoption for film ever. IMO Itunes really started the love for DL. I love some films on Blurays, but others just dont look that different from good 1080p Downloaded sources like Xbox Live etc. There is a difference but not massive. And I play trough what many still consider one of te best players on the market. PS3. |
I pay CAD 49.99 for 10mbps with 60gb cap. That's by cable, only 1 provider available. The phone lines are all old copper crap and don't offer more then 5mbps dsl. I would have to move to Toronto to make regular digital movie downloads viable.
Zune on Xbox live offers the best quality movie downloads atm. Still they are limited to 10mbps and DD 5.1 The difference is big in sound and picture if you have dedicated equipment. I love movies that pull the camera back and let you wander your eyes across the scenes to take in all the details. Ofcourse I realize I'm in a minority group, but one that is willing to pay good cash for the best quality. Laserdisc survived without most people even knowing what it was. I see no reason why a new physical movie format can't co-exist along a mass market online service.
I lend my blu-rays to my friends anyway, before they had a ps3 they watched the dvd copy that's pretty much in every release. Can you share digital movie purchases? (I haven't been willing to purchases digital movies yet. It just feels wrong, no extras, no soundtrack options, might as well record it from tv)
The next movie format is not going to be for the average consumer, same as blu-ray is here now as a premium movie format next to dvd. You could be right that the adoption will be lower then blu-ray. It depends on how fast the bandwidth can grow. That super fast 1Gb/s fibre internet experiment in Kansas is still only 1/8th the speed of hvd at 1GB/s.
Correction: HVD looks to also be 1Gb/s, same speed as google fibre. 1 gigabit/s or 125 megabytes/s
