Well you think that because I own a Xbox360, I don't like BluRay? A bluray-player costs like 200€, I can afford that. I just don't want one. I just got 500€ ($700) for Xmas but I still won't buy a BluRay-Player and there are a lot of people out there who feel the same. You shouldn't judge others by one’s own standards.

Digital Distribution will never overtake disc format, look how big music downloads have become yet people still buy music discs. Gamestop, Game, huge supermarkets etc would also lose huge sums of money so no matter how anyone looks at it, people will still always prefer the hard copy.

The day a company goes digital distribution only will be the same day they die. Also what about connection speeds? I cant keep count with the number of people who only have a certain bandwidth and can only download so much in a month.

NA, Asia and Japan need to get superfast internet speeds and that too the majority of people, then someone can say with a straight face that DD can match a hard copy.

lol...wow...slow down a bit LOL....i rather buy a blu ray/PS3 than have major hard drive problems(data loss & corrupt data)+ not every household has internet(and the list just keeps getting longer

i said that because i saw u are a m$ supporter (i understand that and got no prob with u supporting dem)

i dont own a PS3 btw....

I third that, if 321ttrini seconded it.

DD is still a long way from going mainstream globally, primarily due to the cost of bandwidth and limited infrusture. It takes 5-10gb to dl a game these days (at least) and my monthly bandwidth is 70gb at a cost of $89.00 (AU). Which means that on top of the cost of game, I still have to pay anywhere between $6-12and not getting physical content.

Eh, unless they can get the studios on board it will fail miserably

1920p? Fail

So it releases Q1 2009, they should go bankrupt Q2 2009.

Yea its retarted with no movie studios to support the format, also considering Japan has adopted the blu-ray format, and europe blu-ray is beginning to take off...

BR will be the shortest lived "mainstream" format to ever exist, with the huge push to digital distribution. From its birth , BR was destined to live a very short life. Besides, Panasonic is already on a 16 layer disc that holds half a TB of data, even if you dismiss the digital distribution method.