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Originally Posted by mike2h
so your saying that downloading 10 giga byte movies is a viable alternative for everybody or even quite a few peeps? lmao. bitrate & encoding isnt everything. its a lot, but the source material is at least as important.
while i believe downloading none hd movies is viable now for a few peeps - most people dont have the equipment, know how, etc to use it- hd download as a real world alternative is years away.
unless you are doing a 'watch one time' deal with a movie, i dont see the point. the price for unlimted viewing is pretty much the same as buying a new release dvd - wich can be had for $14 -$17 usually. & you have a more durable media, & in most cases better pix & sound quality
like i have said before, i can see reg def movies being good for a few peeps, & eventually becoming more mainstream down the road, hd movie download is a whole other ballgame.
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Yeah that is what I am saying though, downloading and watching a movie one time, or 30 times- even if it is a 60 GB file.. will be better than having to mess around with disc players and hard media. Basically an HD on demand service form your ISP (cable TV or internet or both, or fiber, or satellite, whatever).. I am talking about legally, with contractual rights for private viewing, not pirated. For instance I have 660GB of 1080i format storage (or any other besides 1080p for now) connected to my DVR. Why not just pay the cable company to watch a movie at the same bit-rate and codec that a Blu disk has? The infrastructure is being built already. It could also be done over the regular internet.. I guess if you want to "own" your movie on a disc that's fine, but I would rather just have a right to watch it whenever I wanted and not bother with the media, or if I wanted a hard copy, just burn my own or but it on a future 50GB SD card. With the equipment I, and many others have now I can record TWO 1080i streams and watch a recorded 1080i content at the exact same time on the same hard drive that is in my PC.
Also, just to be clear, the type of media really has no bearing on the image quality, it may be a limiting factor, but I could download (theoretically) a higher than BD bit rate movie with less "artifacting" that was twice the size in GB that wouldn't even fit on any optical disc, but that would barely fill my 3 TB hard drive. I'm not talking about today, I am talking about the near future. Maybe 1080P will be the low grade HD and 1440P will be the new standard in HD TV's.
You see where I am going with this and why this "format war" isn't really as important as some people think because of many different factors?
EDIT- it looked like you added a "duh", and some other comments while I was replying.. Oh well, this was a reply to your original post.