I don't know why people think Digital Distribution is the future...

I'm 95% sure DD is the future.Brainkiller05

[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"]I'm 95% sure DD is the future.Javy03

I think they're using $30 million of the stimulus money to expand broadband internet. that should help somewhat.Zero5000X

I think that is a big fat lie. I know people who have been living with 56k all their lives and the DSL or cable line is only 3 or so miles away when it ends. Yet to this day they still have no plans to expand the coverage.

$30 million really isn't anything at all. USA is massive,just under3 Million square miles (48 states).

So, yeah... It's gonna be a long time before people see broad band.

[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"]I'm 95% sure DD is the future.Javy03

DD is the future. It saves space, keeps from getting your product damaged (unless you decide to spill a drink all over the har drive it's stored in), and it's all on one device.iammason

Here's what internet bills will look like if Digital Distribution takes off.

When people buy stuff, usually its because they want to have it forever, what If a hardware malfunction occurs? you could loose everything you bought.

No way. There's nothing like having a stack of games cluttering up your room. Ah the memories.OreoMilkshake

Other than the obvious of Steam being exceedingly popular, isn't Netflix a big deal in the US as well? I agree that ISP bandwidth caps are really hurting future distribution, but I'm fairly confident that more corporations will shift towards digital distribution and will force the change with those greedy ISP's who don't want to update their infrastructure :)

Here's what internet bills will look like if Digital Distribution takes off.
Bluray001

Haha, wow. I do about half that and I ended up switching off Rogers last year to avoid bandwidth surcharges. DSL isn't as fast and my latency is higher, but at least I won't get charged extra.

Blu Ray is an overhyped upgrade of a DVD, not pushing anywhere near the impact DVD did, get over it mate.PC360Wii

[QUOTE="nmaharg"]I find it funny people say they hate DD, yet they most likely have itunes installed with a bunch of MP3s on there PC/Iphone/Ipod/zune/psp do I need to go on. Steam is slowly becoming the itunes of gaming. Itunes sells more music through DD than all retail stores combined. "But, but DD is the fail...." Bluray001

[QUOTE="Bluray001"][QUOTE="nmaharg"]I find it funny people say they hate DD, yet they most likely have itunes installed with a bunch of MP3s on there PC/Iphone/Ipod/zune/psp do I need to go on. Steam is slowly becoming the itunes of gaming. Itunes sells more music through DD than all retail stores combined. "But, but DD is the fail...." WilliamRLBaker

I can't believe how closeminded people are. DD is the freaking present. It's where the content makers want to go and it's where it eventually will end up. Of course not everyone will be able to use it, but that isn't the point. You don't need everybody to make it work, just a reasonable majority.Saying you won't accept it is like standing in the path of a hurricane with a cardboard shield. It's basically a waste of time because you ain't stopping it.

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="Bluray001"] Downloading music is convienent. It takes seconds. Unlike games which takes hours.... and TrueHD movies, which take a day or two. Bluray001

I don't mind DD as long as hard copies remain the primary option. Networks go away, computers and consoles die, business shut down, ... I don't want my games to exist in virtual space, I want them to exist in real space.

Besides, if DD fully takes over hard copies expect to be abused.

[QUOTE="Bluray001"][QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"] maybe on your connection, where as on mine it can take a few minutes, or an hour, and HD movies a few hours.heretrix

[QUOTE="Bluray001"][QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"] maybe on your connection, where as on mine it can take a few minutes, or an hour, and HD movies a few hours.heretrix

Here's what internet bills will look like if Digital Distribution takes off.

Bluray001

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Here's what internet bills will look like if Digital Distribution takes off.

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Here's what internet bills will look like if Digital Distribution takes off.

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[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="Bluray001"] Downloading music is convienent. It takes seconds. Unlike games which takes hours.... and TrueHD movies, which take a day or two. Bluray001

lol yeah whatever you say, then i guess its native 1080p encoding means nothing. lol stop making excuses bluray like someone else said was a useless upgrade not even half of america owns an hdtv and doesn't look to be getting one any time soon, blu ray was before its time as was hd dvd. the 360 and ps3 both struggle to even product native 720p constantly let alone 1080p.

P.S: just to answer your bitrate question i have someone that are 45mbits.

[QUOTE="Zero5000X"][QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]very few countries don't have a flat fee for net connection. It sucks for you that you're living in one of them I guess

AdrianWerner

[QUOTE="Bluray001"][QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"] maybe on your connection, where as on mine it can take a few minutes, or an hour, and HD movies a few hours.WilliamRLBaker

It's very convinient for me on the pc, and most of my steam games actually install faster than their DVD counterparts. I'm definitely a fan of DD.

DD is freaking lame!!! I pefer a hard copy over anything at least then you have ownership over said material. Otherwise you just renting their product.

It's been around forever, and it's still a niche market. Not only in terms of sales has it been surpassed by Blu-Ray, but even the now discontinued HD-DVD outsold Digital Distribution. In terms of movies, it's also highly inconvienent unlike music or picture digital distribution.

Not to mention the new internet bandwidth caps that ISPs are now adopting in order to keep download speeds consistant for all users.

It's been around forever, and it's still a niche market. Not only in terms of sales has it been surpassed by Blu-Ray, but even the now discontinued HD-DVD outsold Digital Distribution. In terms of movies, it's also highly inconvienent unlike music or picture digital distribution.

Not to mention the new internet bandwidth caps that ISPs are now adopting in order to keep download speeds consistant for all users.

Last time I checked, 50% of Americans had broadband, and that number was increasing very slowly. Good luck with DD.

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[QUOTE="Zero5000X"] But the US is the most important country in the gaming industry.Zero5000X

Look at how often US is getting a shaft nowadays when it comes to PC games, you often cen see awful low quality english translations with cheap voice overs, long delays compared to Euro releases, often not releasing add-ons as standalone products instead just adding them to "Gold re-relase" bundle, ending with some games not appearing at all in US.

BTW that comcast cap is 250 gigs/month. I do a lot of PC gaming and didn't even know that I had a cap(Have comcast). Maybe because its 250 gigs a month.

Who the heck would go through 250 ?

I would imagine this is to cutout the middle man, as in gamestop and the like. Gaming won't be going there for a long, long while though, So no need to worry about it now.

It's been around forever, and it's still a niche market. Not only in terms of sales has it been surpassed by Blu-Ray, but even the now discontinued HD-DVD outsold Digital Distribution. In terms of movies, it's also highly inconvienent unlike music or picture digital distribution.

Not to mention the new internet bandwidth caps that ISPs are now adopting in order to keep download speeds consistant for all users.