Blu-ray and HD DVD doomed and downloads win?

[dialog_gvf]

Blu-ray, HD both doomed as pr0n industry twiddles thumbs

He gets the notion of who wants to see all that in HD porn right. Although few are actually filming on anything but 720p or 1080i cameras with real-time compression, so most will be crap anyway.

Gary

[HDTV1080P]

Thanks for the article Gary. If I want to purchase a 50G movie online with extras and all the good stuff Blu-ray offers I am going to need to buy a few 1 terabyte $399 hard drives to store these HD movies on that take several hours to download. Or I could burn them to Blu-ray discs. Realistically HD 1080P downloads is more for the rental market and not for someone that wants to own their own movies. Many of these HD downloads are going to have digital artifacts because they try to make the size of the movie as small as possible. Good HD-DVD and Blu-ray HDTV quality downloads for purchase and rent is at least 5 years away. The average consumer is going to wait for Verizon FIOS because who wants to tie up a Inernet connection spending 10 hours to download a 50GB movie to own to store on a $399 terabyte hard drive.

[dialog_gvf]

I agee, that for completely replacing discs we're five years away.

But, if they allowed burning a BD disc, then that would eliminate the need for mass store.

And if they started downloads on your device 30 days before release (left it locked until midnight on release day) then it would already be there the first day you could use it.

A slight shift in mentality is required to see how this could actually done very soon, if the content providers and the DRM stuff was setup properly (which I doubt).

Gary

[coolmilo]

From Gizmodo:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente...ite-229041.php

Sony has never supported the porn industry. But that does not mean the Blu-ray association does not support the porn industry. Sony does not equal Blu-ray. It's amazing how stories get twisted around. Shame on you Inquirer.

I can't wait until one of the formats die; I just hope it's not Blu-ray because I sort of bet the farm on the technology. It's been a couple months now since I purchased a regular DVD - it's all Blu going forward for me.

[blitz6speed]

I would not be concerned. If you notice, all the major CE companys want nothing to do with microsoft. They realize that MS wants to sabatoge the formats and if it goes to digital downloads, what are companys like panasonic, samsung, pioneer and others to do without players to sell and make profit on? MS wants to directly eliminate these hardware companys selling players for media on discs. The industry is too smart and way too powerful to be fooled by MS's games. Trust me, they will crush MS's plans.

[joeorc]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Blu-ray, HD both doomed as pr0n industry twiddles thumbs

He gets the notion of who wants to see all that in HD porn right. Although few are actually filming on anything but 720p or 1080i cameras with real-time compression, so most will be crap anyway.

Gary

GOD WHAT PURE FUD.....
THIS IS THE bigest crap load of it if i ever seen ..
this is just one example i find

Could it get worse? Most companies officially hate porn but love the money it brings in, so they give it tons of support behind the scenes. Not Sony. It is swinging the other way and going after anyone who replicates porn on Blu equipment. If you do, your licence gets pulled, basically putting you out of that business.

[jorg]

down loads will not win download to high to big of files

i think the studios greatest deffence ageinst hd piracy is the file size