Thread: The Future: Digital Downloads - What?

Quote: Originally Posted by krazeyeyez If you are refering to me, my real point was that people who quickly dismiss downloads/streaming as no where in sight are misguided. I can fully see this taking a strong market share in the world and not taking 20 years to develop into a viable option. This also does not mean hard media disappears entirely but that it coexists with a market share of potential people that are quite a bit larger then i...

Quote: Originally Posted by brettallica OK. I've got you now. So your Blu-ray player would have a hard drive built into it...ideally anyway. That's more like what I was saying earlier, about having an all-encompassing computer (with tons of storage space) that will do the rip and play the Blus. I wouldn't be comfortable passing that kind of volume over a network connection, even at gigabit speed. Time to collaborate and build a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Anthony P NO, the world does not revolve around you R&T talked about streaming a BD while watching it to a home server over wi-fi. brettallica he would be nervous doing that over wi-fi, Marquoz who I quoted said there is no issue DL large files because there is error correction and tools to help with such matters. That is why I quoted Marquoz and I said that the issue was not the filke size but the tasks at...

Quote: Originally Posted by robinandtami I think I see what you are saying. It wouldn't be an issue for a player with an onboard HDD. A player without one would need a USB stick or memory card to cache the data between the rip and transmission to the storage drive; but as long as you had a way to cache as you go, corruption should not be an issue. OK. I've got you now. So your Blu-ray player would have a hard drive built into...

Quote: Originally Posted by robinandtami Digital downloads for movies is still in it's infancy. The quality does not yet match that can be found on physical media, although Zune HD has made a giant leap towards that with crisp 1080P video and 5.1 Dolby Digital. When digital media is able to meet BD quality, there will be many people, including myself, who will readily jump to it. Even if it costs the same (or more!!!) to buy a download...

I still find it hard to believe that people actually assume that movie collectors "require" or "need" something physical. Of course it doesn't exist, but I'll bet both of my thumbs that if starting Dec 1st 2009, you were able to download new release blu's for $15 bucks and catalogues for $7.50, in under an hr, you'd all scrap your physical collection. Of course it would have to include...

Quote: Originally Posted by brettallica I'm just saying...writing all that data. So you'd be copying from the Blu-ray player, to your media server, over the network. That would freak me out. I would fear data loss/corruption/etc, especially when dealing with files of such a large size, like 50GB. Do you follow what I'm saying? It could be that I misunderstood the way your system is going to work, too. I don't think there...

one a-hole on every forum i guess. Thanks Ben you fit the bill.

Quote: Originally Posted by Afrobean I'd think that the people who would support downloads would be the type to just have Netflix and use their streaming service and never buy anything. Sure. That's still digital downloads. Personally I've never claimed that digital downloads that you purchase is what will eventually take over. I'm sure that will be part of it, but the big "threat" is on-demand streaming...

Quote: Originally Posted by Elvispookie 3 paragraphs is hardly an awfully long rant. You're on the internet. No one wants to read your multi-paragraph diatribe. Wrap it up and make your point. Quote: Originally Posted by Elvispookie Its your A.D.D. that is the problem. OK... Quote: Originally Posted by Elvispookie Try and focus and realize you cant just say "I dont think streaming video is going to make it anytime...