They are both the future. Blu-ray for the next 10 years, downloads will start to take hold in about 7 to 8 years.
I think people who currently buy DVD movies will eventually move on to buying Bluray movies. I think people who currently rent movies from Blockbuster/Hollywood Video, will move on to VOD.
Why would I want to have a movie on Bluray rather than purchasing it online? Because it is guaranteed to play in any of my Bluray players (currently only my PS3, but I imagine it'll become more mainstream later). If I download a movie for purchase on my PS3, can I play it on anything other than my PS3 or PSP? In fact, the PS3 movie service is the only service that I'm aware of that let's you download movies for keeps, and not just as a rental. If Microsoft started letting you download movies for purchase, would I be able to play that movie anywhere else? Or just on my XBox360?
| disolitude said: I'm not sure if digital distribution is the future just yet...but there are already many people like me that only download movies/songs and rarely rent/buy them form stores. |
Its not often I get to agree with you, but this time we're on the same page. The only thing I can add is that if fiberoptics spread as quickly as is slated, within the next 5 years, a much larger percentage of digital distribution will take over the market.
I have never bought a single MP3 in my life (only CDs to this day). The same will apply for video. I don't want to buy something that is just on my hard drive and can go easily. Plus, when will I have a few tera-bytes laying around to store the amount of Anime I purchase.
Also, Anime box art is one of the perks of purchasing disc based content.
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blu-ray is definately the future
digital distribution is the future future. it will take a while, but digital distribution will definately come.
I hate digital distribution
60% cuz i have 56K dial up
40% cuz i want a physical copy of a disc instead of having a HDD full of movies and music that i have to backup on a regular basis for fear of failure.
Plus at least with Cds i get a very high quality format (1411Kbit 44.1Khz PCM) and can choose with my ripping software what bitrate to make it (in my case 320kbit-max VBR MP3 for my computer and 160kbit-max vbr MP3 for my 512 MB MP3 player.)
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there's room for both
One problem that digital distribution has, not every one grew up with computers like a lot of people on this forum (and many others) have. Many people have a hard time just checking their email, and you expect them to all of a sudden trust their computer enough to buy movies online?
how many people have hd moniters on their pc's? how many people have big enough hard drives to actually store blu ray quality movies? how many people have the bandwith speed to download a blu ray quality movie?
not saying digital distribution wont happen, its coming, but blue ray is here to stay for a while.
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