only 400 mb? wtf

@janjaap

sorry I do not know much about these downloads things...despite being hardcore..

is it more than that or less?

Why do you think MS even entered the gaming market? This is future of mainstream videos. You can download a full length HD movie in about 30mins. That is less than it takes most people to drive to a rental store. It may not be "mainstream" now, but it will be in the next few years.

Broadband levels are only getting faster, the abilities to play these files on your TV's are only getting easier. It is only a matter of time. I for one know that I have no intention of purchasing either HD player. I will build a new PC with full media capabilities and have that connected to my TV. I will begin digital only video rentals soon. I know I am not the only one that this appeals to. 

well lets say 700 mb and that quality is pretty bad

@superchunk & dtewi
Hence why I said "nearly nothing." I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that by recorders they only mean units that can write onto the formats. That is they're strictly not counting pure players, such as PS3s and PS2s. This being the case, DVD recorders, which have been out for roughly a decade and thus the market is rather saturated, is still outselling Blu-ray & HD-DVD recorders, which are quite new in comparison so I wouldn't expect them to light up the charts anyway, four to one. The study says nothing about sales of the actual format either, that is the media.

@superchunk

but majority of the people don't have such PC's like you & are not well versed in the skill of downloading such movies

trust me on this

Physical formats aren't going anywhere....not even in GAMING Wise (as in downloadable full games)

But all of this is factored in if your using an internet connection that averages out to about 5mbs, which some 70% (<- numbers out of ass) of America doesn't have. To go the all digital route with 30g movies is not a good path to take. ESP not for people who care about special features and such which the disc's offer. Digital downloads might be a thing in the future, but don't expect disk media to go away any time soon :P

 If you are counting on HD quality downloads, look at them to be at least 5gb's or in most cases larger.   So basically, if I want to download a 5-10gb movie, it will take about a day to download that size of a file at the quickest unless they can really counter any sort of bottlenecks in the system.   When I want to watch or buy a movie, I don't want to wait hours or days to get that movie when I could run out to a store and buy the movie or rent it the same day. 

Also, I do not trust in saving all of my movies with no hard copy backup of the movie in case I have a HD fail and am unable to get back those movies without buying again.  I'll stick to hard copies like DVD's or Blu-Rays over downloading any and every day of the week.  

 ?, in no way. As far as HD-dvd and Blu-ray goes I support Blu-ray. It's just amazing that if you repeat the same thing over and over people actually start to believe it. The fact that even the media in general assumes (because I have seen it happen multiple times) that Blu-ray is Sony alone does say something.

I can't speak for Japan, but I know few people in North America who use DVD recorders; most people seem to favour either a VCR or PVR. If Japan is like North America this could just be a strange market segment, potentially caused because VCRs and many PVRs are not suited to recording a lot of HD content.