I agree. Articles like this making statements like "the coming Apocalypse" is just rubbish. The quality of streaming media is standard DVD at best in most places, even in the States, and simply not an option at all in good chunks of the rest of the world.
I live 10 minutes from a major city and I'm glad if I get around 5 Mbps out of my ADSL line for Christ sake!
And, a lot of people actually WANT their physical media.
It will be many many years before streaming media can compete head on with proper HD material like BD.
“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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I agree. Articles like this making statements like "the coming Apocalypse" is just rubbish. The quality of streaming media is standard DVD at best in most places, even in the States, and simply not an option at all in good chunks of the rest of the world.
I live 10 minutes from a major city and I'm glad if I get around 5 Mbps out of my ADSL line for Christ sake!
And, a lot of people actually WANT their physical media.
It will be many many years before streaming media can compete head on with proper HD material like BD.