akuma587 on 24 March 2008
Yeah, long term is very vague. By 2015 Digital downloads will have a strong foothold in the marketplace, but Blu-Ray is still catching on faster than digital downloads. Every day that passes digital downloads have more to make up for than they did before, because they are growing at a pretty slow rate. Once people are used to something, they tend to stick with it too.
I have a pretty pessimistic attitude towards digital downloads because I know how bad my internet service is, and many services for that matter, and how real of an issue hard drive space is unless they completely revamp conventional hard drive technology very soon. Before 2015 digital downloads will not have more traffic than Blu-Ray.
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