Zappykins said:
SvennoJ said:
Zappykins said:
Gamerace said:
Blu-ray is only 30%? Still? That's terrible. Adoption is really slow and it will likely be replaced by digital downloads before it ever becomes dominate. Still it would be advisable for MS to adopt for their next system if just for room for game data. |
Right! This should be the best time for Blu-ray movies, but few people are buying them. It's missing it's 'big window' of sales, which it should be thriving in now. DVD came out in Japan in 1996, and a year later North America 1997, Europe 1998, and Australia 1999. Blu-ray format was standardized in 2004 and came out in 2006. Technology still marches on, and the tech is showing it's age, and they will not be able to compete with the 2K or 4K screens that will be coming out soon.
In my opinion Blu-ray is a dead format. It did better than the 2.88 floppy drive, but too much fighting over the format and its being replace by something better and more flexible.
Fiber, fiber is easy to use over long distances, and doesn't have the same problems that copper wire does with interference and traffic. Stream is so much a more convenient and easier to use product. Plus, they do not punish you with unskippible commercials like most Blu-ray movies do (for most services).
When Google Fibre is offering 1000 megabytes a second upload and download - why bother with a relatively slow data transfer of a Blu-ray player?
PS It would be nice if the next Xbox played Blu-rays. But if it doesn't, I wouldn't really care.
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Google fibre is offering 1000 megabits per second, that's 125 MBps, still a ton of data and twice as fast as a 12x blu-ray drive at 54 MBps.
HVD is promising the same 1 Gbps or 125MBps.
Anyway I can't buy Google fibre in a store, I would have to physically move to a location that offers that. I don't expect it to come around to my town of 11k within the next 20 years.
And sure you don't have unskippable commercials in movie streams, yet. My tv on demand provider has them for the 'free' content conveniently locking out fastforward for those programs. Once it becomes mainstream you will see the commercials appear with movies as well. My biggest problem with stream atm is that you don't have a choice of soundtracks including lossless sound and no extras.
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Well, I don't know if Google will ever go to your town. But someone else will - and because fibre, once it is down, is so much easier to upgrade and less prone to interference, you could have might much higher bandwidths that you have today. The pressure from Google with force Verizion, Comcast, Time Warner, ATT and others to improve their services and expand or get rid of caps. (Data caps are just a way for them to make money.)
As far as commercials. We have them already on many services: Hulu Plus and Crackle, have commercials while Zune, Amazon Video, and Netflix all do not - and you can fast-forward, rewind, skip head to your heart's desire. Even Netflix has 5.1 surround now, and Zune always did at 1080P (if you have enough data speed.) You often can get Some extras, but yes, that is sometimes and advantage of a disc.
My buddy can come over - we log into his account, and we can watch from his entire purchased library. Nothing to carry, nothing to break or get scratched. It is super convenient.
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