Blu Ray wings getting clipped?? 15 Minute HD Movie Downloads

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Username2324 said:

gebx said:
1) Forget MS/Xbox Live.. replace with Apple TV and every Cable Provider who wants to cash in on Video on demand rentals

2) Blu Ray is not the dominant format yet, and while HD downloads may not kill it ( I pretty sure I wrote that in my OP), it will take market share away and stop it from being as dominant as the DVD.

3) Costs will be high at first, they always are

4) Wait waht??? @SSJ12??

Itunes alone accounted for 4 BILLION songs downloads as of Jan 2008!! and at least 2 MILLION movies!

I LOL at you. What the hell do songs have to do with it? And do you realize those movies were less than DVD quality, and only about 1GB in size? Like I said, the 360 doesn't have the harddrive space, and most PC's don't, it's still a long way off and the cost for the first few years will be immense! Who wants to pay $1200+ a year for internet, +$20 a HD movie download when you can pick up a $300 Blu-ray player and $25 a movie. And also as I said, that $25 movie comes with better quality, special features, and a most likely a game or two.

 

Competely agree with the quality issue and also the fact that movie downloads are NOTHING like music downloads except from the way data is transported.

 Music downloads caught on because of portable, small devices that let you take your collection anywhere and with absolutely no regards to quality (the earphones of the ipod are crap but a v.v. small percentage of owners actually replace them). This means that medium bitrate MP3 is fine for 99% of ipod owners. Also porability and how small the device is actually an advantage in the music business.

The movie downloads are exactly the opposite. You need large hardware (large TVs) with loads of space (won't fit in something as portable as the ipod) and the movie distributors will not let you transfer the movies you bought anyway. Also, quality plays a much bigger role in the movie industry (i.e. streaming movies are not even as good as DVDs).

This is why it is not an advantage to download movies in compact packages as it is with music but is actually a discadvantage.