dallas on 31 March 2008
| ssj12 said: downloading will not silence Blu-ray sales as internet speeds wont be raised very quickly. Even broadband is only maxing 20mbps for the standard household with Verizon which the standard is at 10mbps with Brighthouse (the two leading ISPs at the moment). Downloading an entire HD movie with all extras will be about 40 - 50GB or 70GB uncompressed. No matter what it will take forever to download. |
I don't understand why MS thinks that they can start a media counter-revolution based on downloading, when movie downloads have been around for 17 years and to MS's credit while these probably have put a small dent in movie sales, the downloads just haven't show any sign of overtaking movies so if MS is thinking that this is going to be a big thing then they are overhyping their upcoming downoad service to a significant degree.
