Kber, why do you dodge the point?

Alow me to redirect you towards the topic:

If you could show the PSP had the same software market share as its hardware share you would have a point. But in the end all you're doing is cherry picking an issue while ignoring the circumstances that keep it from being a threat to Nintendo.

Here in Norway downloading of movies has taken off and most of my friends are doing it. My brother got a very impressiv collection of HD movies, that he has downloaded so I will say it willl just take a couple of years before downloading everything will be pretty common. But it won't take long before Blue Ray or HD DVD will be replaced by a new and much better format.

I know people who have gotten rid of their cable and just download. Sure there will always be a place for fixed media, but the growth curve for downloads is going to accelerate much faster than fixed media.

kber, even here in Poland we have tv downloads through TP SA. Obviously it isn't on a very high level and it doesn't have many users, but the very fact that something like this has taken place should show you that the idea is gaining ground fast.

Obviously if you were to buy a movie though the net and download it, the procedure would have to look like the one with VC games on the Wii. You can erase the games, but you can always download them again, because you have the license rights to it. On the PC there would have to be greater regulations since many would try to download the movies from their friends.

I would actually prefer download content from possessing physical media, i already have a room filled with vhs and dvd movies. But with DC and the current and future pricing of HDD's the problem of lack of space on hdd's will become a thing of the past.

One of the sticking points for downloadable movies in the near future would be the growth of HD.  Last I heard around 30% of American households now have a HDTV and I would think that most of them want to use that TV for HD content when they can.  While SD movies are at a small enough size (compared to the newer HDDs) to be feasible, HD movies are still too large for mass support via downloading.  When I see something like an iPod or Zune w/ 500gb+ worth of storage space (not too far off really) & a higher average speed for broadband internet here in the US(will probably be a LONG time) downloadable movies might be the "next big thing."

You also need to take into account that some areas of the world have broadband that they pay for the amount of bandwidth they use(sort of like cellphone minutes) rather than just a straight up connection like a lot of Americans do.  Pretty sure I've heard a few Aussies say something about their connections along those lines.  Were broadband at the same level as in Korea & Japan for the rest of the world I might say differently but for the near future downloadable movies will be a negligible market.

I'd also like to say that I personally download TV series to stream from my computer to my PS3 but I don't see that as a replacement to buying the DVDs.  Generally the episodes I download are from the current season or from a season that hasn't been released on DVD yet.  

I can understand need of the gaming industry to switch to a format where they can eliminate resellers (Used games at Gamestop).  However, if for the PS4 (or any system) I'm not given the choice of a physical copy vs. download I probably won't bother with the system.  When you've had as many HDD failures as I have you're not going to be a fan of not having a physical copy or backup.  Not to mention I really enjoy having physical copies of my software.

Im just simply going to disagree with you, downloadable content is going to be the future of EVERYTHING, from books, to music, movies , games, everything. It may take a while, and as more people get broadband it will start to ramp up, but as for the size of an SD movie and an HD movie? doesn't make a difference. Your talking 4GB vs 12GB if that, if you dont have broadband you wont be spending days downloading 4GB of a movie, while you will spend an hour or less downloading that if you do. As time goes on that 4GB download will be shorter and shorter. Further, if you buy a downloadable movie and stream to your tv, or through your cable box (as in buying the rights to the movie) you should and will always have a right to that movie, you should also have a right to physically back it up.

As for consoles having downloads? its a tricky question - consoles need to have a presence in a retail store , if certain games become primarily downloaded items, they disappear from the store , think about most MMO's in the really big box stores, they get released, and after a while the majority of people who pick them up are doing so online, that I dont think will work for consoles until downloadable HD movies are common, once that kind of downloadable content is common in the home, consoles will follow.