Blu-Ray or downloads?

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kowenicki said:

Bokal said:
I don't think dowloads will make it anytime soon, maybe in 5-6 years if there is a massive change in prices, drm policy and ways to save the media.
With dowloads less than 10$, no drm (which is more annoying for customers than the others) and some solid state memories such as big cheap sdcards to save the file, it could work.

Actually, I agree with bleu-ocelot, bluray will be dominant before downloads become mainstream.

why is DRM an issue on rental downloads....? its the rental market that could drive this.

 Hey man, I have an X360 and I have been watching movies off the Xbox live marketplace for sometime now. What I hate about this though is that once I start watching a rented movie I only have 24 hoursto finish viewing it. If I am late that day and I decide to watch the rest later, I have to finish within that 24 hour window. Also if I download the file to the Xbox, I can only watch it on the console, I can't take it to a friend's place and watch it together. Compare this to a physical rental service and you know the difference. One of the reason Netflix killed Blockbuster was the elimination of the late fees(so u can keep the rental for as long as u want and view it as many times u want), now where do you get that with this stupid DRM?