[QUOTE="alfy13"][QUOTE="tcarruth"][QUOTE="XL83"][QUOTE="tcarruth"]Digitially distributed hi-def movie downloads in less than 10 minutes? HDDVD vs BluRAY is surely irrelevant?
Now you've just got a really expensive redundant drive in the PS3. How long before Sony drops BluRAY given that DD is here, now?
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Um, what? How does this affect me again? I didn't buy my PS3 to play movies. I like BD as a storage medium for gaming, at the moment I couldn't care less about which format wins in terms of DVD sales. To top it all off, I own a gaming PC and I always will. Sounds like the best of both worlds to me.
I don't get it, you didn't buy your PS3 to play movies? What did you buy it for? ;) (takes system wars hat off). Seriously though, the comment was just that if you can obtain hi def movies and games over the net, in less time than it takes you to go to the shops, sony have a problem and MS don't. I'm like you though, I don't care all that much since I'm a PC gamer that enjoys some of the benefits of consoles..
i did not understand your post. you are saying digi downloads would only hurt the ps3 but not the 360? that doesnt make any sense at all. last time i remember my 360 uses dvd to play games.as for hurting HD format sales. i dont see it hurting them at all. hard drives get filled up fast with HD content. so the constumer has 2 options, go buy the hard copy version of the movie, or delete a movie so i can dl the next one if the hard drive is to full to dl.
You need to read about Digital distribution (DD). You can own rights to stream an HD movie from a server whenever you want. Rather than being in the same location as your console (ie in the BluRAY drive) it is down a longer piece of cable sitting on a servers hard drive. It never goes away, is degraded etc. This is already happening in Japan (which is often a good predictor of technology uptake in other countries). The 360 is less hampered by the shift to DD because A) its DVD drive costs about ~$20 instead of $300 of BluRAY which may needlessly add cost to its competitor and B) MS already uses DD.
The fact that it's already happening in Japan is a pointless comparison. Japan is much smaller than the US and people are far more confined to urban centers which don't require a lot of infrastructure. The US is far more spread out. Even some of our larger cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, etc. are sprawling cities with massive suburban smaller cities surrounding them. The geographics of the US don't lend well to digital distribution over a new internet technology. DSL and Broadband are still lacking in this country. In addition the move to HD alone is confusing enough for many people, and now you want to convince them that they should also download those movies as well. That will be a tough sell to stubborn Americans.
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