tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15213874.post7311185320828449097..comments2023-10-07T13:49:03.726+01:00Comments on Bazlurgan's Blog: Films, Gaming and Life.: HD War over?Bazlurganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624611692282469256noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15213874.post-44810737317775054662008-01-10T11:48:00.000+00:002008-01-10T11:48:00.000+00:00"...when HD films are available to download. Also,..."...when HD films are available to download. Also, I do not think that this will be for some time yet - maybe 10 to 15 years......"<BR/><BR/>Apple and XBox Live already do HD movies, Sony is planning on doing the same with PS3: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118885177843416106.html . They're even more bullish than me, predicting $8bn sales by 2010.<BR/><BR/>And of course if you have a BitTorrent client you can get anything... ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15213874.post-24058821456351007712008-01-10T11:18:00.000+00:002008-01-10T11:18:00.000+00:00I think it runs along age / tech savvy lines thoug...I think it runs along age / tech savvy lines though - young people buy the most music, and they wanted it downloadable, but the old guard didn't think that way so misjudged it completely.<BR/><BR/>Movies are a little different, they have a size problem right now, and the people that buy them aren't perhaps quite as socially biased towards the young as with music. But you can already get HD movies online, legally and perhaps most importantly illegally, and it will only increase. The question is when not if a sizeable portion of the consumers will prefer it that way.<BR/><BR/>Of course you'll never get everyone using downloadable content all the time, but I think it's a lot more significant than you think. As a movie collector you probably have a slightly different attitude towards keeping physical movies to watch over and over - most people just end up watching them once or twice. I bet most DVD sales are only about people wanting to be able to watch them _when_ they want, I bet they don't watch them that often (I know I don't - once a year is likely the max if it's a particularly good film). I think fast, on-demand downloadable content would address a pretty large chunk of the market that currently buys DVDs and barely uses them most of the year, with the caveat that people will still want boxes sometimes, and there's gifts of course. <BR/><BR/>The second-hand market is the only other factor favouring physical content, and content publishers absolutely _hate_ it. If they can sell people stuff they can't resell later, they will be very happy. They _should_ be able to offer movies online far more cheaply than physical product (fewer middle men taking cuts, no reproduction costs) so they could incentivise the purchase of non-resellable downloads this way.<BR/><BR/>I think 5 years from now downloadable movies will be huge, in parallel with disc formats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15213874.post-4698210391229043872008-01-09T19:19:00.000+00:002008-01-09T19:19:00.000+00:00I can appreciate what you are saying re downloadab...I can appreciate what you are saying re downloadable content, but do not believe that your opinion is shared by everyone.<BR/><BR/>I'd even go as far as to say that without DRM issues I'd probably also be in a similiar boat, except I would anticipate that there would be very similiar issues when HD films are available to download. Also, I do not think that this will be for some time yet - maybe 10 to 15 years down the line. For now Blu-ray and DVD suit me just fine.Bazlurganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09624611692282469256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15213874.post-26960792361366202322008-01-08T21:03:00.000+00:002008-01-08T21:03:00.000+00:00Also, personally I'd be happy to go to downloadabl...Also, personally I'd be happy to go to downloadable content. I buy music on CD only really because of DRM issues, if everything was without DRM I'd probably buy it all online. The same goes with films, once my internet connection gets fast enough. I really have no attachment at all to the physical boxes on my shelf - they just take up space, actually, and mean I have to switch discs and inconvenient things like that. If I could just browse an on-screen library and pick what I wanted, that would be fine by me. More and more of my media is electronic anyway - CDs come off my shelf to get MP3'd once, then just collect dust mostly, unless I lend them out. And without DRM I can 'lend' them to others on a memory stick or something. <BR/><BR/>The music industry totally missed the boat on downloadable content, because they thought people wouldn't actually pay for music online, and Apple took them to the cleaners. The same mistake might get made on movies too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15213874.post-48336384423133737522008-01-08T15:17:00.000+00:002008-01-08T15:17:00.000+00:00Yeah, I saw that in the 2 weeks after Xmas the PS3...Yeah, I saw that in the 2 weeks after Xmas the PS3 has been selling more than the 360 worldwide, although it was the other way around in the 2 weeks running up to xmas (when the numbers were obviously higher overall, but the difference between was about the same). It's good they've finally narrowed the weekly gap, although Sony still need to do a _lot_ more - even at the best rate so far (last week, 36,000 more PS3's worldwide) it will take them 16 years to make up the 7m difference. Sony really need to be selling 2 or 3 times the amount of 360s at this slow time of year to be making significant overall headway.<BR/><BR/>Maybe once Blu-ray wins they can concentrate on games a bit more instead of the Blu-ray angle, which really shot them in the foot to begin with because of the silly cost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com