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Originally Posted by Terjyn
You've been duped by Microsoft. The bandwidth and storage space to even contemplate hi-def downloads is a decade away minimum. Even with 160 Gig hard drives as a standard, that's only enough to download 3 movies with uncompressed sound.
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I did
NOT say
HIGH QUALITY hi-def downloads. I'm talking broadcast quality hi-def downloads. Storage and bandwidth will not be as big of an issue for broadcast quality hi-def downloads within the next 2-4 years.
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Originally Posted by Terjyn
People said the same thing about VHS. Just like DVD caught on because it's very clearly better than VHS, the same thing will happen to Blu-Ray, *if* HDTVs finally take off. Which brings us to the bigger problem in this case...HDTVs aren't as cheap as they need to be to be in all homes everywhere.
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VHS tapes wear out. DVDs do not. Comparing the two is...not logical. "Why replace a "perfectly fine" DVD that looks great every time I play it?"
Agree HDTVs need to, and will, come down in price which will increase hi-def disc sales.
Blu-ray will never achieve the success of DVD. If I'm wrong I'll eat my hat.
Anyone else think Blu-ray will outperform DVD? Chime in.