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thranx on 07 May 2011
osamanobama said:
thranx said:

I can not wait until physical media is on the way out. Almost there. DD is the future guys, just look at the music, movie, and tv industires.


i like my movies with uncompressed full 1080p, with lossless, uncompresssed, 7.1 surround sound. thankyou.

i also dont like waiting hours to download a movie with bluray quality, then never actually owning it.

and with my movie collection and game collection, i would need terabytes of hardrive space. and God forbid anything happen to all that data.

music is way different. it takes up a ton ton ton less space, and people like listening to it on the go. it has no visual component to it, you just listen. games and movies require a lot more of your attention and time, and also take up Gb of space. and games are just going to get bigger next gen. can you imagine how long it would take me to download KZ3 from the internet, and then multiply that by a lot for next gen. 

internet infrastructure is not stong enough to support things like that.


And just like digital music was a downgrade from cd audio, its about the convience. In the US its far too convienient. Its also just more cost effective for alot of people. It has never taken me hours to download a hd movie. I can usually have one downloaded quicker than if I go rent/ buy one, not to mention streqaming on netflix only takes a few minutes. I know physical media will be around as there are people who prefer it, but it won't be theaverage persons main way of getting media. (in the US atleast). Harddrive space is cheap. I have a 2 terabyte internal drive that is not even half full, and a 2 terabyte external drive for back up.



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EyeAmTJ on 07 May 2011

I don't think so Remedy, Digital only is a no go for me sorry



SvennoJ on 07 May 2011
thranx said:
osamanobama said:
thranx said:

I can not wait until physical media is on the way out. Almost there. DD is the future guys, just look at the music, movie, and tv industires.


i like my movies with uncompressed full 1080p, with lossless, uncompresssed, 7.1 surround sound. thankyou.

i also dont like waiting hours to download a movie with bluray quality, then never actually owning it.

and with my movie collection and game collection, i would need terabytes of hardrive space. and God forbid anything happen to all that data.

music is way different. it takes up a ton ton ton less space, and people like listening to it on the go. it has no visual component to it, you just listen. games and movies require a lot more of your attention and time, and also take up Gb of space. and games are just going to get bigger next gen. can you imagine how long it would take me to download KZ3 from the internet, and then multiply that by a lot for next gen. 

internet infrastructure is not stong enough to support things like that.


And just like digital music was a downgrade from cd audio, its about the convience. In the US its far too convienient. Its also just more cost effective for alot of people. It has never taken me hours to download a hd movie. I can usually have one downloaded quicker than if I go rent/ buy one, not to mention streqaming on netflix only takes a few minutes. I know physical media will be around as there are people who prefer it, but it won't be theaverage persons main way of getting media. (in the US atleast). Harddrive space is cheap. I have a 2 terabyte internal drive that is not even half full, and a 2 terabyte external drive for back up.

Funny thing about music, I hardly buy music anymore. Movie soundtracks can still impress me at 5.1 lossless 24bit sound. CD audio just sounds dull with 16 bit dolby prologic.

It takes me 2 to 3 hours to download a 10mbps movie. Streaming caps out at 5mbps. Blu-rays max 54mbps is still pretty low imo. Sure the average person doesn't care that much about quality, nor does it matter much when seen on a 42" screen using the tv speaker. Not many people spend 20k on a theater room instead of buying a car :)

But the average person doesn't have super high speed internet either without download caps. Netflix would just not work for friends of mine. With 2 teenagers they're already struggling to stay under the download limit.



theRepublic on 07 May 2011
thranx said:
bannedagain said:
thranx said:

I can not wait until physical media is on the way out. Almost there. DD is the future guys, just look at the music, movie, and tv industires.


Just look at the caps that the internet providers are attaching on because they don't want to upgrade there tech. Well lets just charge more instead of doing the right thing and upgrade our system.


Not a  problem in the US just yet. The only cap I know of is att and even then its at 150 or 250 gigs a month.

Comcast has a cap too.  It is 250 GB.



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IllegalPaladin on 07 May 2011

I don't see this happening yet.

If we're seeing internet service providers with caps and such, what happens when I have to redownload my Steam library for example and I don't have any backup disks? The big PC releases can be well over a 10gb download.

Not only that, if they have such an issue with Gamestop, why don't they incentivise customers too? I'm becoming less and less interested in buying new games when there's more and more charged downloadable content, annoying DRM, and increasing prices even on PC. Heck, isn't digital distribution supposed to be cheaper than retail? So why not have frequent sales and drop the prices of games sooner rather than later as well as release the games for less?

How can I justifiy $60 on a game purchased through digital distribution when I'm seeing more charging for extra content especially things like map packs, costumes, weapons, power-up's, ect? Then, I have to log into an account to play it either via the service (ie - Steam) and/or be logged in through the publisher's own DRM and make accounts for the games I play (ex - logging into EA's servers to play Dragon Age) in either case servers could go offline and now I'm screwed.