Blu Ray sales up 500% from last year.

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makingmusic476 said:

cwbys21 said:

Apollo said:
500%?........that means its 1% closer to replacing DVDs...lol.
lets face it, DVDs will never be replaced with Bluray.
too many people are downloading movies these days. when DVDs came out in 1998, nobody was downloading films.
but in 2008, the credit crunch means people are cutting back on entertainment.
movies, music, its all downloadable now. and we all know it.

 

You do realize not everyone in the world (or even in western countries) live in a highly populated area that gets super fast reliable internet for reasonable prices right?  In fact only a very small percentage are able to, and because of that downloading isn't nearly as popular or accessable and some on this site seem to think.

 

Even in the US many places only have access to dial-up, and the places that have access to broadband are usually charged exorbitant prices.

Japan gets over 10x our average internet speed and they pay less on average!

It'll be years before broadband penetration is high enough for digital distribution to take over.  Even if the speeds were available, they'd have to be at low enough prices for people to consider adoption.  And even at current broadband speeds 720p films take hours to downloa, let alone 1080p films.

Not to meantion the harddrives needed to store all the movies purchased.

Don't get me wrong, I believe digital distribution will become mainstream, in a decade or so.