Squilliam said:
3-5gb is the maximum you'd need to satisfy 98% of the market 100% of the time. The new compression technology is amazing. The new Wireless technology is amazing as well. Who will want Blu ray when storage/networking/playback technology is progressing so rapidly? By the way, don't worry about the cable companies... they'll be the ones who'll sell you the movies so they'll make damn sure that the bandwidth is available so you can stream movies straight away. I think they're even rolling out 100mbit around the big cities. Do you want to A - Drive to the store to buy that new dvd that you really want, or B download it onto your media server and have it available on all your computers/tvs at once for less than you would have paid for the DVD? The luddites will stick with DVD and the early adopters will abandon blu ray. Think Ipod and you'll understand.
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-98% of the market is going to want a physical copy of what they buy.
-100mbits is the maximum speed that you could possibly get, but most people don't get anywhere near that.
-Most of the world is still without broadband internet access for various reasons(cost, the fact that cable companies won't run a line out to where they live).
-The cost of storing and backing up digital media makes it noticeably more expensive than DVD(and Blu-Ray).
-The situation with the Ipod isn't exactly what you think.
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3
