M$ say they never backed the wrong format.

When asked if they backed the wrong horse M$ reply was

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"What do you mean?" Xbox UK boss Neil Thompson joked with The Guardian. "The horse that we're fundamentally backing is the one that says the future of entertainment content is online digital distribution. I would argue that we backed the right horse.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=185995

wow scots nice undercover work.
guess that'll teach em that ms has been backing online this whole time and creating customer confusion. OMFG Teh Michael Bay was in righT!>!>???
eh, nvm it won't teach anyone anything because sony is the enemy, not ms.

M$ is the enemy this time, even if $ony is more evil. We know the software companies want DLC to win, its old news. Apple and MS want to control it all.

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[Post edited by rangoonth on Apr 3, 2008]

You'll never get me M$ or $ony...see...
I'll stay in my cave with my Delco, VCR and stack of old tapes...see

How many times have I got to repeat the same thing over and over again. MS, Apple and studios may want digital downloads, but the consumer doesn't!!!!!
Ok, now the four of you on here who have an OC3 connection to your house can tell me how I am wrong....

People want the shiny disc...it's all about discs people !!!!

You tell 'em Bosshog!!!

Disc media is the BEST! Bring on the sales...

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

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People want the shiny disc...it's all about discs people !!!!

I think the down turn in music CDs sales and the rise of iTunes suggest that's not the case.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7329886.stm

Yes, iTunes became the no. 1 place to buy music in less than five years.

That said, the movie business is a different thing because of file size and other factors but it is defiantly coming. People want ease of use and attractive prices and I'm sure it will be download that eventually becomes bigger than DVD.

However, Blu-ray will with no doubt have its place in the market with consumers that puts quality above all and want the best possible.

Blu-ray will be bigger than Laserdisc but rank much similar in the average consumers mind. The great thing here is that there will be an option for all of us. We who like quality can get Blu-ray and the average family that wants to rent a movie without hassle (and in decent HD quality) Friday night can download it from their Apple TV, XBOX 360, Playstation 3 or whatever box they have under their TV.

7 years from now I think the top 3 will look like this when you compare software sales:

1. Movie Downloads
2. DVD
3. Blu-ray

Just my two cents.

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7 years from now I think the top 3 will look like this when you compare software sales:

1. Movie Downloads
2. DVD
3. Blu-ray

Just my two cents.

I don't think you're to far off Henning, although I think streaming may be the choice method. Where you rent or even buy movies and add them to your own 'digital library in the sky'

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I don't think you're to far off Henning, although I think streaming may be the choice method. Where you rent or even buy movies and add them to your own 'digital library in the sky'

This is all well and good until your "digital library" becomes infected with a virus or infiltrated by a trojan that renders your collection useless...

With a physical disc, you will never become victim of a virus or worm or trojan.

With a physical disc, you can watch and rewatch whatever you choose, whenever you choose to.

With a stream feed, you are at the whim of the supplier and the network connection between you and that supplier...too many chances for failure at present.

I am about the experience and right now the physical disc provides me the content for that experience.

Streams are fine for listening to some internet radio or watching old super-bowl commercials, for free that is, but if I am laying out my hard-earned cash, I want rock-solid reliability...we ain't there yet...