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Originally Posted by aaronwt
They will still last until Video ON Demand takes over from DVD in a few years.
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LOL that's a reach. M$ is making a big bet that HD via VOD will happen far sooner than anyone else believes. The truth is it won't. Compared to physical media, even SD on VOD isn't doing all that well and the bandwidth for HD is far, far greater. We were supposed to be so far ahead of where we are in terms of bandwidth right now, but the truth is it's still pretty miserable. By now everyone was supposed to have broadband at home and all phone calls would be over VOIP... again reality says that a very low percentage of people actuall have these things.
HD VOD is more than 10 years away from being a mainstream reality. You might as well have suggested that people hold onto their VHS tapes until Blu-ray or HD-DVD came out instead of adoption DVDs at all.