They should talk to Sony to borrow some money since the green from the Blu-ray exclusivity from format war ran out :) With Blu-ray growing super fast I wonder why they are going digital distribution route. Aren't they suppose to be making a killing with Blu-ray? That's what they said right?
What a shocker that digital downloads model is turning to be a wise solution for everyone :) I think Sony should return the favor and sign exclusivity with them for PS3, though that might be tougher since Sony is pushing downloads too.
Personally, I think they are way too late for the party.
When are you fans of (poor quality) digital downloads going to get into your heads that a) a lot of people do not have the bandwidth to do digital downloads and will not have it for a looong time to come and b) a lot of people do not want do do digital downloads, they want a proper physical copy in a box.
Stop talking for "everyone".
Also your harping about how bad BD is doing is rather worn out now. It's doing quite okay (especially worldwide) given the state of the global economy.
Okay.. 1-2% of DVD worldwide is alright? LOL.. give me what you're smoking.
And have you even read the news? Q4 2008 netflix grew 45% alone. Do you have any idea what that means? Everyone likes convenience. I am not satisfied with the quality either when compared to BD and prefer watching Blu-ray currently but with mainstream comes quality. It's only a matter of time when the quality will match Blu-ray but without inefficiencies optical media offers in general (and I also mean DVD too in there) . The better the infrastructure and more money that goes into technology and these delivery methods the better and faster adoption and quality will be.
It's the same principle that some are saying about Blu-ray, only digital are growing unprecedented speed much more rapidly.
Facts are that BD is doing better in both Europe and Japan than in the states. 1-2% is a pure lie.Facts are that BD is doing better than DVD did at the same time after the introduction (and DVD didn't have to fight the same kind of format war).
Netflix is in the states only.One day everyone might have the bandwidth to support it but that is far far away. As I said, I live close to a major international city and I get 5 MBps at best and it will be many year before that changes.
Also, as I said, many people want their physical box.
Bottom line, digital downloads are far from better for "everyone".
I don't think Sony's in any position to pay Blockbuster to do anything. Sony's suffering its worst losses in history, and the fundamentals don't look good. The last time Sony had losses anything close to what we're seeing now was when their studio business flopped, but the electronics business has always been much larger and therefore the studios could never really kill it.
This time it's serious.
As far as BB goes, they need to weak their pricing model a little, but their digital downloads service is pretty close to being perfect. What's needed is:
1. More HD. 2. Surround sound. For the love of ---- why do many of the DD services forget this? 3. Some or all content for a flat rate rather than pay-per-view.
The fact it's based on downloads rather than streaming gives it a head-start against services like Netflix's. It also has the advantage over Netflix that it offers recent releases.
It doesn't take a lot of tweaking to get this to work, but it does need some.
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They should talk to Sony to borrow some money since the green from the Blu-ray exclusivity from format war ran out :) With Blu-ray growing super fast I wonder why they are going digital distribution route. Aren't they suppose to be making a killing with Blu-ray? That's what they said right?
What a shocker that digital downloads model is turning to be a wise solution for everyone :) I think Sony should return the favor and sign exclusivity with them for PS3, though that might be tougher since Sony is pushing downloads too.
Personally, I think they are way too late for the party.
A wise solution for "everyone"?
When are you fans of (poor quality) digital downloads going to get into your heads that a) a lot of people do not have the bandwidth to do digital downloads and will not have it for a looong time to come and b) a lot of people do not want do do digital downloads, they want a proper physical copy in a box.
Stop talking for "everyone".
Also your harping about how bad BD is doing is rather worn out now. It's doing quite okay (especially worldwide) given the state of the global economy.
Okay.. 1-2% of DVD worldwide is alright? LOL.. give me what you're smoking.
And have you even read the news? Q4 2008 netflix grew 45% alone. Do you have any idea what that means? Everyone likes convenience. I am not satisfied with the quality either when compared to BD and prefer watching Blu-ray currently but with mainstream comes quality. It's only a matter of time when the quality will match Blu-ray but without inefficiencies optical media offers in general (and I also mean DVD too in there) . The better the infrastructure and more money that goes into technology and these delivery methods the better and faster adoption and quality will be.
It's the same principle that some are saying about Blu-ray, only digital are growing unprecedented speed much more rapidly.
Facts are that BD is doing better in both Europe and Japan than in the states. 1-2% is a pure lie.Facts are that BD is doing better than DVD did at the same time after the introduction (and DVD didn't have to fight the same kind of format war).
Netflix is in the states only.One day everyone might have the bandwidth to support it but that is far far away. As I said, I live close to a major international city and I get 5 MBps at best and it will be many year before that changes.
Also, as I said, many people want their physical box.
Bottom line, digital downloads are far from better for "everyone".
I don't think Sony's in any position to pay Blockbuster to do anything. Sony's suffering its worst losses in history, and the fundamentals don't look good. The last time Sony had losses anything close to what we're seeing now was when their studio business flopped, but the electronics business has always been much larger and therefore the studios could never really kill it.
This time it's serious.
As far as BB goes, they need to weak their pricing model a little, but their digital downloads service is pretty close to being perfect. What's needed is:
1. More HD.
2. Surround sound. For the love of ---- why do many of the DD services forget this?
3. Some or all content for a flat rate rather than pay-per-view.
The fact it's based on downloads rather than streaming gives it a head-start against services like Netflix's. It also has the advantage over Netflix that it offers recent releases.
It doesn't take a lot of tweaking to get this to work, but it does need some.