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I agree completely with this. I keep hearing how downloads are the way to go and that all other formats are obsolete including Blu-Ray and that BD has a life of maybe five years or less. There are several deterrents to this theory including that many people like having the physical media in their library. In order for super high quality downloading to be the norm, the Internet will need to be revamped and become much more robust and reliable. I don't see that happenning anytime soon.

Want to talk about what's expensive- high speed Internet in this country is slow and costs $40 and up per month. I wanted to pay more money and turbo-charge my Internet. That costs more and isn't even available here.Then your Vudu box is $299 and you pay $3.99 to $5.99 per month. And unlike music downloads, you don't own it. Start watching and it's gone in 24 hours.

Being that no one wants to invest any money improving the infra-structure of the internet the streaming and downloading advocates may find they are the ones hitting a brick wall soon. The days of declining internet access prices are going to come to an end. Not to mention for many people any thing more complicated than pushing play after putting a disc in a player they will not do.

I would agree that Blu-ray will be around for a while longer, more like 10-15 years. DVD sales will drop off in favor of just as cheap Blu-ray Players. However media will now be a deciding factor in which format to buy. P2P of illegal copies will need to be stopped (note that P2P is not always for pirating, but a lot of people do it) for Blu-ray to take off better. DRM will need to be eliminated or improved to be transparent over a given media, as most consumers will not care. One caveat I do notice a trend though a lot of consumers are not amassing great libraries of movies, since such different formats have come out, they don't want to re-purchase a library of films. Consumers are more and more going to softcopies of films. This I feel is the way things will go in a few years with the more PC centric consumers, a infrastructure that needs improvement anyway, and a more sedentary culture permeating the masses. BTW, monthly costs are not seen by most consumers, they can't do the math.

I fail to understand why people always gravitate towards convenience, rather than quality. People out there are assuming the movie sector is similar to the music industry, well, its not. The infrastructure is just not there for HD downloads and it seems as if they don’t even know it. Also, so even if you download content, you have to store it somewhere, right? The answer you get each and every time is, “hard drives are inexpensive”. True, but who the heck wants to become a System Administrator, not me. The “upfront” convenience of downloading is only masking the truth. Physical media is only shunned because of its archaic appearance and downloading is glorified, because of the hype. If archaic is, “so last year”, I guess I’ll be stuck in the past with 1080p and lossless 7.1 audio. The past never looked and sounded so good.“Quality and quantity are not equals, that’s why one is about numbers and the other about characteristics”, Josh DeBoer

If Blu-Ray is dead then how come retailers are selling the few $299 and $399 Sony and Panasonic players left above MSRP.Most retailers are SOLD OUT!!!

Josh D is right on the money when he states that many people STILL want physical media in their hands to play at "their" convenience and we aren't even talking about the "special edition" discs with the multitude of features available only on Blu-Ray. I find it kind of ironic that despite the sales decline in CDs over the last few years along with the massive increase in downloading, it seems vinyl is making somewhat of a comeback. When it comes to HD and considering the current state of the internet, we are still many years away from even comprehending quick and "reliable" movie downloads for home use. Give me the hard copy with the great picture and soundtrack which downloading, for the foreseeable future, could NEVER provide.

One of the reasons that CD sales have dropped is that it become easy to not have to buy bad music. In pre-download days, how many songs on a CD or album did anyone really listen to? 1? 2? 5? Very rarely was the entire CD listened to on a regular basis. Downloads allow one to skip the undesirable songs. With a movie, it's all or nothing. Different buying model. Also, many bandwidth providers are starting to either limit total bandwidth used or squeezing down the pipe once a threshold is hit. Not good if one watches a lot of HD movies.

I have to admit that i don't have much experience with Bluray other than what I've seen in the store but I do use an HD player at home along with a DVD upconverter. From what I've heard and read about streaming it is unreliable and it is rent for 24 hours or buy for the price a dvd would cost anyway. I have to say I don't see the apeal. Who wants a movie stopping to buffer in the middle while their trying to watch and why rent a movie for 24 hours and then have to pay again and again whenever you want to watch it? I can say that what I've seen of Bluray, I am very impressed by the picture quality and sound and the same is true about my HD player and DVD upconverter, why mess with something thats so good. I have streamed media clips on Youtube and if thats the quality we're talking about here then I'll pass on streaming! The picture was grainy and choppy and had to buffer constantly. Whats so hard about sliding in a Bluray and enjoying a truely superior experience?

Why does nobody talk about the audio. I'm a 30 something and I work in the AV world. I love streaming, but without 5.1 (netflix) it shouldn't fly. I say shouldn't because we all know that people are willing to sacrifice good quality for accessibility. Doesn't anyone want their surround sound anymore???

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