Is the importance of Blu-Ray overstated?

[Stockstar1138]

paramount and sci-fi channel (owned by NBC Unviersal) didn't want to talk about blu-ray? No Way!!!

It was a good post, however I have to disagree with you. Downloads aren't going to take off for the movie industry. You compress audio a lot, with an ipod and pair of $10 headphones, no big deal. You compress video a lot and you can see the artificats of the process, it looks terrible on a big HDTV. You just spent 2k on a HDTV and you are going to care about quality to some degree. A song can get downloaded in 30 sec. and is a few MB at the most, an HD downloadable movie of any decent quality is going to be at least 15GB, which will take most consumers HOURS to download, even in the near future. Movie fans who own 100+ movies are looking at 1.5TB HDDs, hardcore movie buffs are looking at upwards of 10+TB HDDs, thats not cheap. I can take my ipod around with me, let friends listen to music on it if I want. However, lets say I just dl'd a movie and a friend wants me to come over, I can't just bring the movie over like I can with blu-ray. Then what happens when my HDD craps out. Also, you are probably going to have to pay for some type of download service too. Then, what happens when Apple, Sony, and Microsoft all offer HD download services and Sony refuses to support the other too. Disney only goes with Apples, Universal/Paramount goes with MS exclusively and who knows what WB and Fox will do. Got another format war on our hands.