HD storage format war is over

debtworrier

aMIGA_dUDE wrote: »

Sorry but very much doubt that download content will take off for long time. This all down to bandwidth that true HD video needs. You can easily be talking 8 GB for 90 min's. Lot people have limits by there ISP to bandwidth to about 5GB a month or they charge for more per GB and expect this price to increase and not to decrees as more customers start using it. Yes the more popular it to become the higher price will be.

Also you download to device, so there no way of taking the film to friends place with out lugging around an expensive peace of hardware around with you.

There's also the issue of rights: when you buy a DVD you own it and can sell it on, loan it to whoever you want etc when you get bored with it. Downloads usually just give you the the same "end user lack-of rights" that software inflicts on us. I think a sufficiently large part of the general public has been annoyed enough by - for example - having to buy windows over and over again that they won't want to be suckered a second time.

superscaper

debtworrier wrote: »

There's also the issue of rights: when you buy a DVD you own it and can sell it on, loan it to whoever you want etc when you get bored with it. Downloads usually just give you the the same "end user lack-of rights" that software inflicts on us. I think a sufficiently large part of the general public has been annoyed enough by - for example - having to buy windows over and over again that they won't want to be suckered a second time.

Not sure what your point is. There's no difference with your rights between a DVD and software. Except with a computer program you have additional rights in that you're allowed to make a personal backup. With a DVD you're not. And with downloads there's usually a limited number of copies you can make. With a DVD you're not allowed to make ANY copies. When you buy a DVD you only own the disc, but have no ownership of the content. I'm not sure how that's any different to downloads. You own your hard disc, mp3 player or whatever medium it is stored on but you don't own the content of the download itself.