| kowenicki said: Following on from the post down below.... "WOW Maybe Sony was right all along" (why WOW? not sure.... anyway... moving on) A recent survey suggests that the one thing that users genuinely crave is a decent movie download service http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7117155.stm So will Blu Ray be able to reach the saturation sales that DVD has enjoyed or will it eventually be undone by people downloading...? I used to be dead against music downloads... always wanted the cd in my hands... now i never buy cd's. Arent movies the same, in fact arent they even more suited to downloads since most people rent rather than buy. Surely downloading a time sensitive file is just too convenient. I dont buy the slow speed of broadband being an issue by the way, that will increase rapidly over the coming years and even now I manage to download movies relatively quickly with no problems. I have got a PS3 on the way which I only intend to use for Blu-Ray, but then I am a bit of a movie collector. The average consumer is happy to watch a rental/download and then never watch that movie again |
Broadband speeds in the U.S. very extremely(not sure about Euro) and the majoirty of poeple are no where close to proper speeds to want to download a movie over have it on a physical media. Music DLs can't be compare because movies can be well over 1000 times the size if not alot more. There is also a point of where is it going to be stored? Harddrive? Doubt it, people won't trust leaving a movie file they had to pay for in some folder on their harddrive with a chance of getting a virus and having to reformet, and if they have lets say USB stick or W/e they choose to carry it in... then were back to why not get a physical media in the first place? Digital tranfer is no doubt the future but by no means the immediate future; a giant chunk of console owners don't even have an internet connection to their console, as for sole movie buyers (most likely less orinted in technology) won't be taking the iniative.
