Downloads will never take off. Blu-ray is the future and plus 100% of hollywood is going to make sure that happens.

unlike the music industry, the movie industry will never give away there content so it can be pirated like the music industry. (almost killed it). companies like disk and (most mportantly) are use to them. that will not chage for 10 years.

Sounds like brand loyalty to me pops

 Hey man, I have an X360 and I have been watching movies off the Xbox live marketplace for sometime now. What I hate about this though is that once I start watching a rented movie I only have 24 hoursto finish viewing it. If I am late that day and I decide to watch the rest later, I have to finish within that 24 hour window. Also if I download the file to the Xbox, I can only watch it on the console, I can't take it to a friend's place and watch it together. Compare this to a physical rental service and you know the difference. One of the reason Netflix killed Blockbuster was the elimination of the late fees(so u can keep the rental for as long as u want and view it as many times u want), now where do you get that with this stupid DRM?

download for me , but we really need high speed broadband connections...

You can't.

But some people love their Xbox so much that they prefer to watch their movies on it, even with the DRM hobbling in place.

We've heard all the pro arguments like being able to start watching after only X minutes have passed as the file continues to stream to HDD, or that the 1280x720 quality is "great" even though you pay a premium over SD purchases (rentals) that still don't begin to match the quality of either HD-DVD or BR-D.

Facts are, right now HD media (now only BR-D by default) provide the best in home viewing experience, limited only by your individual set up.

With the studio support behind the format, we're not going to see fewer new releases (and remastered old releases), we're going to see a constant stream of more.

I don't mind Youtube kind of stuff, like for movies though, DvD's are for me - I find myself getting bootlegs though usually for five darra I mean dollars.

I got to watch 10,000 BC on a sweet copy, but it was only worth 5 darra - movie kind of sucked.

Slow dls. I got Transformers the other night with high quality in like 10 minutes. I have a 54Mbps connection so I guess I don't count for the majority.

Btw, I wish I was the old lady with the 40Gbps connection: http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2007/20070727_75_year_old_woman_has_fastest_internet_connection_in_the_world.htm

How did the PS3 drop the ball on gaming? You are such a fricking troll

heres the catch 22, by the time blu ray would have reached market share the will make DVD nervous 1080p will be on th low end of HD, mean while downloads will be able to get past that since they are a digital media and not something limited by plastic