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FishyJoe on 07 April 2007

Again, the cable companies are providing DVRs right now for $10/month. There is no equipment to buy.

The cable companies are sending via local network. There is no modem involved. Speeds are hundreds of times faster than using the internet. 



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windbane on 07 April 2007
FishyJoe said:
Nobody is saying downloading will replace physical media. Just that a sizable portion of the market could wind up being downloadable content from the cable companies. Not everyone is a movie collector nor is every movie collectable. In these circumstances, dowloadable content is a convenient, low cost option.
 People are saying downloading will replace physical media.  The CapAmerica just said that:  "The way I see it the winner of this new format war isn't going to be Blu-Ray or HD-DVD its going to be Digital Distribution."  Otherwise, I agree with you.

 



windbane on 07 April 2007
mrstickball said:

There's a huge issue with digital distribution that's been stated: Size.

I can goto the store, pick up a DVD and play it at home in 5 minutes. For a BR-DVD or HD-DVD-quality disk to download, it'd take hours upon hours of jamming up my modem to download the same movie...Home bandwidth, even at its best, isn't powerful enough to handle typical 2-3hr HD disks yet, or will in the future.

Digital distribution is GREAT - if your downloading small(er) things from 100mb-5gb or so....But many movie watchers want 1 movie a day or more...That'd tie up lines the entire day for a movie when movies are typically on-demand.

Also, to me, the next issue is the capacity of the drives..To fully use digital media (at this point in time) I'd have to buy a $300 500gb HD then spend the SAME amount of money on the download (because I dont really see any 'breaks' on savings here) vs. not buying a $300 HD and just buying the dang disks.

 

For games and songs, yes, great thing. Im a HUGE fan of digital distribution, but I don't see it becoming 50/50 with stored disk formats for another 10 years.

 Well said.  I'll probably never agree with you as much again, heh.

 



SpaceJase on 08 April 2007

I agree. Downloading HD content just isn't practical (yet). As for Blu Ray vs HD-DVD, I honestly couldn't care less right now - until the movies are available to buy in my local supermarket it's a non-issue for me. With SDTVs still representing the mass market I think it'll be at least 2-3 years until either format comes close to the popularity of DVD - by that time downloadable HD movies may be a realistic option.



Kwaad on 08 April 2007

This is coming from a HD video freak. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I could care less wich format is better. Both are so close to identical, the chances of being able to tell a diffrence without analyzing the image... Would be VERY VERY hard. Especially considering they both run AVC. The only diffrence between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is the media. I think BluRay is a much better media than HD-DVD. That is why I support BluRay. (it also has better hollywood support)



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nathantay on 08 April 2007

Blu ray is winning only because they have realesed twice the amount of movies the last three months as hd which is why you see so many blu ray titles in the top 25 sales chart. The more movies you realese the more sales you will have. That's why starting this month you will see that the charts will be around 50% hd  50% Bluray because hd will be putting out around the same amount of movies a month as bluray which is sad because with the ps3 out now bluray has more players out there than hd and hd movie sales will be around the same as bluray meaning most ps3 owners don't buy bluray movies.



         

Kwaad on 08 April 2007
nathantay said:
Blu ray is winning only because they have realesed twice the amount of movies the last three months as hd which is why you see so many blu ray titles in the top 25 sales chart. The more movies you realese the more sales you will have. That's why starting this month you will see that the charts will be around 50% hd 50% Bluray because hd will be putting out around the same amount of movies a month as bluray which is sad because with the ps3 out now bluray has more players out there than hd and hd movie sales will be around the same as bluray meaning most ps3 owners don't buy bluray movies.

 Does that mean most people who bought a PS3... did NOT buy it for a BluRay player?



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larry on 09 April 2007
Hus said:

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/1881/blurayxr8.jpg

 http://www.dvdtown.com/news/nielsentrackingreporttellswhichhdsells/4401

Top 25 titles sold during the year

1) "The Departed" Blu-ray
2) "Casino Royale" Blu-ray
3) "The Departed" HD-DVD
4) "The Prestige" Blu-ray
5) "Crank" Blu-ray
6) "Saw 3" Blu-ray
7) "Superman Returns" Blu-ray
8) "Batman Begins" HD-DVD
9) "Black Hawk Down" Blu-ray
10) "Underworld Evolution" Blu-ray
11) "The Fifth Element" Blu-ray
12) "X-Men: The Last Stand" Blu-ray
13) "Talladega Nights" Blu-ray
14) "The Guardian" Blu-ray
15) "Open Season" Blu-ray
16) "Ice Age: The Meltdown" Blu-ray
17) "Babel" Blu-ray
18) "Flyboys" Blu-ray
19) "House of Flying Daggers" Blu-ray
20) "Mission Impossible" 3-pack Blu-ray
21) "Click" Blu-ray"
22) "The Terminator" Blu-ray
23) "The Covenant" Blu-ray
24) Gridiron Gang" Blu-ray
25) "Kingdom of Heaven" Director's Cut Blu-ray

 


we all know that BD is the winner!!!

just calm down champ



larry on 09 April 2007
Blip said:

Another sign HD DVD is gaining some ground back?

http://www.dvdempire.com/Content/Features/hidef_wars.asp?userid=99365557675282

 I realize BluRay is still ahead here, but it seems the drastic differences are starting to end.  Now with the HD player price drop, 70 new titles over the next three months, continued lackluster sales of the PS3... the war is not over yet!  Though I still hold to my beliefs that buy the time regular dvd's are not the format of choice, downloading will be the actual new format. 


 


no HD DVD has not gained any ground.

the recent release of MATRIX trilogy on HD-DVD saw the sales jump a little.

dont forget over 50% of ps3 owners have purchased atleast one BD disk.

In addition to that the BD players would be available for as low as 300$ from june.

TDK plans to release the 200gig BD disc in summer .

SONY plans to release SPIDERMAN trilogy(1 , 2 & 3 ) this year as well.

 

 



torfred on 09 April 2007

I hope Bluray ends up a clear winner because eventualy bluray burners will be cheap enough to buy and people like me that store their stuff on dvds instead of harddrives to save money will enjoy the higher capacity per disk on bluray. And so far it looks like its heading that way