Posted by RKRM on 12/09/07 06:07

"Big Daddy" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Telstar" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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>> Baored missed my point completely. DVD is likely the LAST disc based
>> carrier of information. There will be no HD DVD or Blu Ray success.
>> Silicon and hard drives and wireless and perhaps cable (the last format
>> is
>> not accepted globally).
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> Please...people have already shown they have no interest in "owning"
> movies via digitial copies sitting on a HDD. Look how many people are
> buying HD movies on 360 via LIVE

Those are rentals not purchases.

(the numbers are miniscule).
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> Joe Sixpack has neither the knowlege, nor patience to wait 8 hours for a
> HD Video to download

It takes no where near that amount of time.

so they can watch it with their friends the following day.
> They are impulse buyers..they walk into a store, see a DVD, and say "hey
> Hon, I heard this movie is good...lets buy it and bring it over to John
> and Jane's tonight.". They don't say "Hey Hon, I heard this movie is
> good...let me download it and we can watch it tomorrow night, provided the
> network isn't too clogged...or maybe we can pack up my PC and bring it
> over to John and Janes and watch it at there house? Oh that's too
> complicated...why don't I just rip and burn a DVD copy and then bring it
> over, it'll only take another 5 or 6 hours for my PC to process it".
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> People want a PHYSICAL storage media, at least for now (hence the huge
> fight between the players involved with HD-DVD and Blu-ray....do you
> really think they would be waging this war if any of their research
> indicated that nobody still had interest in disc based media?)
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