Movies on Downloads

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Originally Posted by JTK

It's been my observation, and maybe I'm wrong on this, but why is it that a lot of people I see that have either bought into both formats or HD-DVD exclusively tend to favor digital downloads? Is the Micrsoft Kool Aid really that strong? Do people REALLY want to bow down at that altar that badly?

I most certainly do not.

Actually, given the right rights, specs, and equipment, I'd support downloads too.

To me digital download should be just another distribution method. You should be able store it on a HDD farm, or burn a disc that is portable. The big show stopper would be DRM, where a "purchase" is locked to a playback device making it pretty much a long-term rental, not ownership.

I also demand as good or BETTER quality. I don't want to sacrifice bit-rate to those without patience who want to think of it as a form of HD VOD, not a distribution method.

I expect there aren't enough people interested for it to work right now. The consumer interest would be in some streaming VOD concept, not the highest quality content distributed digitally.

Gary