Here's another one for you BluRay fanboys... (1 Viewer)

Meh, by this time, it's best just to wait it out until the next thing comes along - downloading movies directly to our brains.
 
i keep hearing that hd downloadable content is the next medium......while i can see this happening, i don't see it happening for at least 10 years......there is just too much involved.....i know people who literally have 1000s of dvds......where are they gonna store thousands of movies on a computer???

i actually know people who don't have internet access at home......

there is gonna have to be a big movement to get that ball rolling

DVDs in whatever format will be around for a good while longer.......

i am all for being able to download a movie in HD right to my player......but will i be able to watch it 50 times??? or will there be a limit on how many views i can give it??
 
Most areas don't have access to the download speeds that are necessary to make downloading movies feasible. There were parts of Chicago that weren't even wired for Cable until the late 90's or early 00's. How long do you think that it will take to wire enough of the country with adequate speeds/bandwidth to make it so that physical ownership of discs etc... are not desired?

antipop brings up the point that I have about downloads. Remember Divx which was Circuit City's alternative to DVD? You could watch a movie as many times as you wanted during the first 48 hours (for about $4.50) and then after that you had to re-activate the disc by calling a number and paying another fee. And you could only play the disc on that one player. If you had more than one player in the house you had to purchase more than one disc.

That's how I see the downloads will play out.

Have fun with it.

If it ever gets here.
 
I'm sitting here watching Battlestar Galactica Season in HD on HD DVD. For the life of me, i can't see how any other consumer is suffering from me watching programing in HD DVD format. I mean, I can see it now, there is some middle life guy in a best buy somewhere saying, "Jeff Miller is watching a movie on HD DVD, I don't know what to do, I'M SO CONFUSED."
 
I'm sitting here watching Battlestar Galactica Season in HD on HD DVD. For the life of me, i can't see how any other consumer is suffering from me watching programing in HD DVD format. I mean, I can see it now, there is some middle life guy in a best buy somewhere saying, "Jeff Miller is watching a movie on HD DVD, I don't know what to do, I'M SO CONFUSED."

well, nobody is thinking that.....but was anyone thinking the same about Betamax???

seriously jeff, you have a vendetta against blu-ray, or sony, or whatever.....it's not the other way around

would you want to own a blu ray and a HD player so that you could buy any movie??? the living room is getting expensive with all of these formats.... personally, i would like to have one standard medium to buy my movies......either one is fine with me.....

right now, blu-ray is looking to be the king....however long it will last......
 
I got a Toshiba HD player for my birthday (it upconverts too) which kind of leaves me free to spend money on a Blu-Ray (somehow appropriate in a weird sort of way) player at some point.....but not at this point.

I think this is Sony's revenge for losing the Betamax war.
 
I guess I'd better do something with those 4 VCRs, huh? :covri:
 
I have some good friends who just bought a 47" 1080p t.v. and they told me that they will NEVER buy into either of the new formats.

I bet they will in about 2 years when they don't make DVD's anymore.

The studio's have seen their DVD revenue drop because most folks who are going to buy catalog titles have already done so. The HD formats give them a chance to sell them all over again. In order for this to happen they need to stop selling DVD's.

I don't care if Blu wins or if HD DVD wins. I have one of each. I just can't believe that the studio's are holding out movies that could sway the contest one way or the other.

I would imagine that Lord of the Rings or any of the other sci-fi geek type stuff would tip the balance of this whole thing but neither side seems to be willing to do it.

I'm guessing that it's because the studio's don't care as long as they can sell movies.
 
i know people who literally have 1000s of dvds......where are they gonna store thousands of movies on a computer???

Why would they try to store them? The whole concept as I understand it is that you'd download the movie each time you watch. Of course, if you think it will be 10 years, which I seriously doubt, HDD's should be approaching petabyte size and a thumb drive would hold hundreds of movies.

FYI, the porn convention just showed a set top box (FyreTV) that has a monthly fee which connects to your internet and lets you stream movies you chose. You can bet Netflix would love to send you a unit like that and not have to pay for mail costs on DVD's. They'd just restructure plans so that they break even in a few months and make money after that.
 
Why would they try to store them? The whole concept as I understand it is that you'd download the movie each time you watch. Of course, if you think it will be 10 years, which I seriously doubt, HDD's should be approaching petabyte size and a thumb drive would hold hundreds of movies.

well, when i buy a movie, i like having that movie at my disposal anytime i want to watch it.....downloading each time you watch??? how much will it cost each time???

and i don't think it will be 10 years before anybody is downloading movies, i think 10 years before everybody is...as in mainstream
 
well, when i buy a movie, i like having that movie at my disposal anytime i want to watch it.....downloading each time you watch??? how much will it cost each time???

and i don't think it will be 10 years before anybody is downloading movies, i think 10 years before everybody is...as in mainstream

You aren't buying the movie, you are buying the service. It's like HBO, only you can chose what and when to watch.
 
You aren't buying the movie, you are buying the service. It's like HBO, only you can chose what and when to watch.


and unless you have a much faster connection than the majority of people you wont be streaming a hd movie for at least a couple of hours, meaning it will take hours before you are able to start watching the movie. on top of that if your internet connection goes down you wont have access to any movies.
 
Downloading movies to a home was tried last year by Disney.

Anybody here use Moviebeam? $149.99 to buy the box, 10 movies per month, $1.99 per SD movie and $4.99 per HD movie. 24 hour use time.

Didn't make it.
 
You can bet Netflix would love to send you a unit like that and not have to pay for mail costs on DVD's. They'd just restructure plans so that they break even in a few months and make money after that.

Netflix is already planning on rolling it out. You can now also rent movies on appleTV.

There are a several obstacles to overcome... but mainly it will come down to pricing and convenience. If you can buy the right to a movie or show and play it at any time and on any player (perhaps by some type of user login), then the future is downloadable content... if studios insist on you paying each time you want to watch a movie - then there will always be a future for physical media.
 

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