| kn said: Just a quick thought... The person that can't afford the bandwidth to download movies probably won't be buying a high def player and hardcopies anyway... Until high dev players are sub $100 and the disks are the same price as current DVDs, high-def downloads via the digital cable box and through other means will have an opportunity to grow. I'm sure Sony recognizes that price is key and will do what they can to get player prices down. Without HD-DVD as a competing format, that incentive isnt' as great, however. |
That's not exactly true, the internet I'm paying for can't even handle online gaming (well... not after December apparently) yet I have a PS3 with a blu-ray player and our apartment comes with an HDTV. I'm not saying that downloadable content isn't the next logical step, but I don't think it'll really get going until broadband gets to those faster speeds and such. Even when the internet connection at our apartment was good enough to play games, it would still take forever to download much of anything (even a short youtube video).
However, once you get a faster internet, you feel like you can't go back. We have a 7mb connection at home and we have a 30 day trial at our apartment for a speed that fast. My other room mates don't really want to pay for a faster connection so I'm trying to enjoy some internet freedom for the rest of the month.
Still, it's an interesting feature and I'd like to use it. However, I still want to be able to have the physical disks.
Heck, we also have a trial on some digital channels and VOD stuff and we don't even have a good enough signal to watch any digital content.
