In Reply to: RE: 2012? posted by Jazz Inmate on April 14, 2008 at 10:55:05:
Streaming/downloadable video is worse than DVD quality. Who wants to watch that on their brand new HDTV or listen to compressed audio on their nice HT systems?
#1 - You can download torrents that are BD quality already, and as more and more people get into HD that number is only going to skyrocket.
#2 - Considering that many people are using crappy speakers with their giant HDTV's, compression in audio doesn't matter to a large number of people I'd say, and a good number of people probably don't know if they're getting the best in PQ, either :-D
Blu-ray ultimately, I think, is doomed by the downloading market...as the hard-drive based distribution idea gets more and more popular, optical discs like BD are going to be in trouble.
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Follow Ups
- RE: 2012? - Jim in Blacksburg 16:01:45 04/14/08 (2)
- a lot depends on infrastructure for massive downloads. - oscar 16:49:44 04/14/08 (1)
- Works OK if you have 7 mb/s internet or better - 4season 06:09:56 04/15/08 (0)