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RE: 2012?

Posted by Jim in Blacksburg on April 14, 2008 at 16:01:45:
Streaming/downloadable video is worse than DVD quality. Who wants to watch that on their brand new HDTV or listen to compressed audio on their nice HT systems?

#1 - You can download torrents that are BD quality already, and as more and more people get into HD that number is only going to skyrocket.

#2 - Considering that many people are using crappy speakers with their giant HDTV's, compression in audio doesn't matter to a large number of people I'd say, and a good number of people probably don't know if they're getting the best in PQ, either :-D

Blu-ray ultimately, I think, is doomed by the downloading market...as the hard-drive based distribution idea gets more and more popular, optical discs like BD are going to be in trouble.