Compression done right is fine and all, but I do not know of too many people with the bandwidth to get downloadable content with image quality as good as that you can get with BD. Not to mention even if it you have to download it first it still will take awhile. I don't think people will be downloading 20 gigs in 20 to 30 minutes. If it is streaming well most people do not have connections that are fast enough to stream BD quality video nor do they probably want to pay for that as well (judging from how many people have DSL).
But I am sure that if HD-DVD won you would be singing a different tune.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Another day and another bitter HD-DVD supporter.
Compression done right is fine and all, but I do not know of too many people with the bandwidth to get downloadable content with image quality as good as that you can get with BD. Not to mention even if it you have to download it first it still will take awhile. I don't think people will be downloading 20 gigs in 20 to 30 minutes. If it is streaming well most people do not have connections that are fast enough to stream BD quality video nor do they probably want to pay for that as well (judging from how many people have DSL).
But I am sure that if HD-DVD won you would be singing a different tune.