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- EvilAnimator, on 02/17/2008, -33/+216Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong. We don't have Korea-style broadband. It would take forever to download a 50GB movie with uncompressed audio and extras. Keep dreaming, maybe in 15 years.
- BattleChimp, on 02/17/2008, -8/+160good thing i bought this HD-DVD addon for my xbox 360!
- EatingPie, on 02/17/2008, -33/+168Toshiba has made no official announcement yet. Reuters is simply quoting another article citing an unnamed source at Toshiba.
I want HD-DVD to go away as much as anyone, but it's not official until Toshiba says so publicly.
-Pie - peestandingup, on 02/17/2008, -96/+198You forgot this part of the title: "...Downloads to kill Blu Ray next."
Pretty much what I suspected. DVDs are still VERY popular & aren't going anywhere anytime soon. By the time they're ready to retire, downloads & streaming will have had time to grow & mature, therefor capturing the market. Its a natural progression.
It happened with music & it'll happen with videos. Just give it time. - solidus636, on 02/17/2008, -9/+88Nobody really cares...
- Dantetheinferno, on 02/17/2008, -4/+51We love to see the format war over. We stopped caring who would win a long time ago, and just wanted one format.
- Snakedal337, on 02/17/2008, -3/+41You just got punked!
But seriously, were keeping your money. - zioxide, on 02/17/2008, -0/+36watch them?
- threepio, on 02/17/2008, -6/+39The PS3 is $399. Try leaving your cave/bridge every once in a while.
- DeathRay2K, on 02/17/2008, -6/+38No, that's one BluRay disc.
- cadmiumpaint, on 02/17/2008, -5/+35good to see one format finally win out. Now that the whole early adoption phase is over, they now have to convince the other 99% of the tech buying world to dive into HD....hopefully there will be sales and reductions in price.
As for downloads...a cute little niche market, but personally, i never want to watch a movie on my iPod, computer, or Phone, and anything high quality enough to play on my home theatre and give me quality sound would take days to DL and kill my bandwith. I rent about 6 movies a week...that would be like 400gbs of downloads per week...yeah right.
An uncompressed High Def movie with High Def audio as a download? yeah maybe in 10 years once they completely overhaul the broadband capacity of this entire country. Discs and physical media isn't going anywhere for a LONG time. - KevinRoseMustDy, on 02/17/2008, -2/+32Actually, I care for Solidus636.
- dig412, on 02/17/2008, -9/+38Nails!
Coffin!
Coming together somehow! - bangusmaxus, on 02/17/2008, -18/+46There's always something new.
Vinyl music sales peaked around 1975, was overtaken by cassettes in 1985 at the birth of CD and was pretty much dead by 1990.
Cassettes started around 1970, took over vinyl in 1985, peaked around 1990 taken over by CD in 1992 and was close to dead by 2000
The CD peaked around 2000 and has declined since.
Looking at the trends we'd expect the CD on it's last legs over the next five - ten years years at which time downloads will dominate the landscape but then, to be replaced by some other "new" media. - Shiftyeyedgoat, on 02/17/2008, -2/+26Why not just link directly to the reuters article?
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/id ... - pbone, on 02/17/2008, -10/+33vinyl dead? are you kidding me? it's been around since the early 1900's and it'll be around for lot longer than any of these new mediums. it's still my preferred choice for music.
- smurf22, on 02/17/2008, -1/+24You can get a blu ray player for 237 dollars on amazon.
- Myonosken, on 02/17/2008, -1/+23This is like the fourth article saying "Official" and its getting ***** annoying. Patience people.
- Zombi, on 02/17/2008, -2/+24I feel that man. I paid a lot for it too. I bought it when it first came out. Now it's good for playing the 5 movies that I own, and thats it.
- MJG2007, on 02/17/2008, -7/+29As Mayor of the Munchkin City, In the County of the Land of Oz, I welcome you most regally.
But we've got to verify it legally, to see
To see?
If HD-DVD
If HD-DVD
Is morally, ethic'lly
Spiritually, physically
Positively, absolutely
Undeniably and reliably Dead
As Coroner I must admit, I thoroughly examined it.
And its not only merely dead, its really most sincerely dead. - FXPooky, on 02/17/2008, -1/+22Well at least they can release a Bluray one now.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 02/17/2008, -1/+20-Pie
- likwidfuzion, on 02/17/2008, -1/+20Preserve them. 20 years from now, they'll be a novelty like Betamax.
- loganhid, on 02/17/2008, -5/+23HA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePcCPtryCfU - fcrow, on 02/17/2008, -0/+18There still a few hundred different HD DVD titles out there, you can now buy them very cheap.
- Netrilix, on 02/17/2008, -0/+17Back on the old Napster via AOL, I'd wait that long for a single song.
- V0lk, on 02/17/2008, -2/+18it will take much longer for the bandwidth needed for that to be widespread enough to be feasible....and by that time, we'll have moved on to "super-HD" or whatever, which will require even MORE bandwidth. At least for today, HD-DVD is dead, and Blu-Ray has a wide-open field for a few good long years.
- topbravo, on 02/17/2008, -0/+16because this is digg
- topbravo, on 02/17/2008, -6/+22We dont want artifacts in our movies.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -1/+16Thanks for the history lesson
- finaldrumgod, on 02/17/2008, -2/+17I still by cds... I love having the originals. I will likely continue to buy dvds as well. I like to make sure they keep making good stuff.
- ttait, on 02/17/2008, -0/+15vinyl is hardly the best quality though.
- yabos, on 02/17/2008, -0/+14It's going to become hard not to buy an HDTV. Most of the TVs at big box stores are flat panel HD.
- Premier, on 02/17/2008, -6/+20Good, now we can all get back to scientology & obama
- PayneX, on 02/17/2008, -0/+14-Cheeseburger
- deadbaby, on 02/17/2008, -1/+14Then I guess you don't have a CD or DVD drive?
- KevinRoseMustDy, on 02/17/2008, -3/+16I'm past that moment in my life.
- maxsunset, on 02/17/2008, -11/+24"This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the *irrelevant* optical disk format war." Pretentious Wired *****, STFU. It's not irrelevant for those who care about quality. I hate Wired these days; it's like they have a box full of controversial phrases that deliberately push people's buttons that they pick from for every article they publish. Besides, until we hear from Toshiba directly, it's not official, just very, very likely.
- Alex2, on 02/17/2008, -0/+13Then some blogger wont be able to make ten cents from links.
- Managua8Green, on 02/18/2008, -2/+14who the hell wants to wait 4 hours to watch a movie? Sometimes they want to watch it right when they buy it. Most people just want to pop it in and enjoy, not turn on, double click, maximize.....
- CH3CH2OH, on 02/17/2008, -1/+13Hitler knew it was coming, too:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LB2e7pfZmGA - KevinRoseMustDy, on 02/17/2008, -2/+14Yeah, you stick with that.
- carlvjack, on 02/17/2008, -2/+14HDTVs are selling at a pretty decent rate, none of my coworkers have standard tvs anymore unless it is in their kids rooms
- topbravo, on 02/17/2008, -1/+13You have served your purpose of bringing down blu-rays prices. Now go into the great abyss.
Good night sweet prince. - greenlight2001, on 02/17/2008, -3/+15You are the most prolific comment signer on digg I have ever seen. Even after being berated by numerous fellow diggers since you signed up, you hung onto signing your posts. I don't know whether that's a good thing, or bad.
- etruscan, on 02/17/2008, -1/+13Downloads are great and all - but I still want physical media.
- teh_techie, on 02/17/2008, -2/+14yep... solidifying the fact that you indeed DO SUCK!
- KataLieb, on 02/18/2008, -0/+12Youre a hippo for calling other people names.
- thatsmyaibo, on 02/17/2008, -4/+16Even digital downloads can't stream in true HD yet because of the size. Especially at a resolution sufficient enough for a big screen TV. Optical media is here for a loooong time to come. Digital downloads are nice, but it certainly won't kill optical media.
Also don't forget that a lot of people out there like tangible products for their money. - TwinTurboMike, on 02/17/2008, -5/+17Actually, Verizon's FiOS service is pretty fast. If you happen to live in a Verizon area which rolls out FiOS, you can get 30 Mbps (3.75 MB/sec) download speeds and 5 Mbps uploads. You could theoretically download a 50 GB movie in under 4 hours.
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