HDM Vs HD Downloads

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Just because a think-tank group of MS cronies say that downloads are the future does not mean that it will happen.

WE will decide how the future of movies, etc, unfolds. If we continue to buy physical discs then the studios will keep selling them, regardless of what MS would prefer them to do. Look at it this way; MS make NO money from sales of HD-DVD discs, but the DO make money every time someone downloads something from their Xbox marketplace. So is it any wonder they are predicting downloading as the future..? They are hardly likely to say "yeah, this download stuff is just a fad, discs are where it's at" No way! They want as many people as they can con to download content but never truly own it. It's precisely how they like to push their software; you licence it, you don't own it. So the money keeps rolling in.

Sony will eventually offer something similar on PS3, but even when they do I won't stop buying discs, or are Sony and MS going to release multi terrabyte hard drives to permanently store all these movies on, with a guaranteed replacement if the drive/console breaks? Can you imagine replacing a collection of 100 downloaded HD movies!!!! lol. This is just another MS wish list item. Some people will use it, but the masses will never be interested because it's not instant.

Now if they can set up a video on demand system, then maybe that will take off, but downloads? Nah.

Give me a disc I can hold in my hand any day! A disc isn't likely to fail for no apparent reason, but a hard drive... yikes!