"Online Movie rentals will never take off until the movies can be delivered and viewed in a platform neutral way. Right now, I don't know any online rental download service that isn't Windows Only."
Not only that, but also for online 1080p-quality HD movie rentals to become a reality, internet speeds must accelerate much further from their current pace (and still maintain affordability) and wireless standards must grow up in bandwidth, and that would require investing billion$ in fiber optics to support wired Gigabit internet and also investing billion$ in both a several-GHz-wide spectrum band and ultra-linear ultra-speed RF-grade semiconductors to support wireless Gigabit internet. Don't expect such a thing within the next ten years; and even whenever such mega-fast internet were to become a reality, a newer physical format much better than both BD and HDDVD (with nine times more resolution than 1080p, twice the # of audio channels than Dolby 5.1 at double sampling rate, MPEG-7 compression, and capacity in the tens of terabytes) would've already emerged then. I even dare to predict that a newer company yet to be known, much bigger than Microsoft and Sony combined, would be at such time the new big daddy, kicking the asses of M$, Apple, Sony, Warner, Intel, and several others to the verge of almost becoming a mega-monopoly on its own right...
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"Online Movie rentals will never take off until the movies can be delivered and viewed in a platform neutral way. Right now, I don't know any online rental download service that isn't Windows Only."
Not only that, but also for online 1080p-quality HD movie rentals to become a reality, internet speeds must accelerate much further from their current pace (and still maintain affordability) and wireless standards must grow up in bandwidth, and that would require investing billion$ in fiber optics to support wired Gigabit internet and also investing billion$ in both a several-GHz-wide spectrum band and ultra-linear ultra-speed RF-grade semiconductors to support wireless Gigabit internet. Don't expect such a thing within the next ten years; and even whenever such mega-fast internet were to become a reality, a newer physical format much better than both BD and HDDVD (with nine times more resolution than 1080p, twice the # of audio channels than Dolby 5.1 at double sampling rate, MPEG-7 compression, and capacity in the tens of terabytes) would've already emerged then. I even dare to predict that a newer company yet to be known, much bigger than Microsoft and Sony combined, would be at such time the new big daddy, kicking the asses of M$, Apple, Sony, Warner, Intel, and several others to the verge of almost becoming a mega-monopoly on its own right...