No ceasefire in DVD format battle

[MrVandelay]

Originally Posted by theknub

online delivery is great and all in theory but there are several problems. the most pressing to me is internet speed. no one has an internet connection fast enough to download a movie in a reasonable amount of time.

Actually Online Delivery of movies is quite possible when "internet 2" becomes available to main stream public. It has been out for about 10 years, but is limited to Higher education institutions and corporations (Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, etc..) for research.

The current speed records for Internet 2, is 2.98 terabytes of data across 30,000 kilometers of network over 45 minutes at an average rate of 8.80 gigabits per second. I think you could quite easily download your DVDs

see: http://www.internet2.edu/