High costs, catfights and the internet will conspire to send both optical discs formats to an early grave.
It's interesting to see some of the mainstream IT media are now starting to question whether anyone is really interested in the next-generation optical disc formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray.
In a sense, it's a bit of a misnomer to call them "next-generation" because they are already here but in the minds and certainly the wallets of most consumers, they remain "next-generation" by simple virtue that DVD is still holding sway in most households.
Whoever writes there articles needs to get a life.
Why would you do it, when you could go down to Best buy and buy the movie for $24.99 and watch it right here, right now?
And the movie will last forever and it will not get deleted by accident from a hard drive crash... Nobody has a 30 meg download pipe yet....digital distribution will not happen till everybody has at least a 30 meg per sec download pipe...the most people have in the USA is about 10 megs avg...but most people are still on dial up...so how are they going to download a 50 gig movie in 1080p with 7.1 surround sound? I just want somebody to tell me how they are going to be able to do this?
actually think the blu-ray hd-dvd will end in combo players that are capable of playing both discs.
now even if they know they are losing they still just WON'T give up.....that's why they need all these marketing...promotion..., just to hope for a day that both format will survive and be played on the combo players. They don't even want to win it now, they just want to survive
They will have 100 GB disc next year...and the PS3 will ultimately give bluray the edge.....next year....Its all a mater of time...it will happen...its too bad the HD-DVD and bluray could not have solved their differences before the launch of both formats.....toshiba and sony do not hate each other...look they both developed the Cell processor...its Microsoft and Sony that hate each other....I think in the end toshiba and sony will compromise...and end the hd-dvd\bluray war....
But online distribution of movies in the next 10 years? its possible but the infrastucture will have to be upgraded...Remember that are bluray movies that are near 50 GB in size....i would rather have my movie collection on disc rather than on the harddrive...or rent the bluray or HD-DVD at hollywood video....why spend 7 hours to download a movie than can be lost or corrupted? So me a 100 mb pipe and they we can talk...