You hit the nail on the head. It's not worth it to download a crappy quality version of a movie for this price when I can't do the same things with it that I can do with a physical media, adding to that that I have to pay the storage media cost. The other bottleneck to adoption of downloading movies is the bandwidth needed to get a quality 1080p encode it much more then most consumer connections can handle in a reasonable time, and with the rate at which they have been advancing, it's likely to be longer then two years before we see something worth while (by my quick math, until 30Mbps real-world performance connections become prevalent, we're not going to see much mainstream success here).
100% agree. And to further the point, with cable companies throttling the amount of Internet a household can use per month, viewing Blu Ray quality movies through the Internet becomes even less of a reality.
until then, I will stick with NetFlix. Great stock of Blu Rays and I always get what I want to see. No complaints.
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You hit the nail on the head. It's not worth it to download a crappy quality version of a movie for this price when I can't do the same things with it that I can do with a physical media, adding to that that I have to pay the storage media cost. The other bottleneck to adoption of downloading movies is the bandwidth needed to get a quality 1080p encode it much more then most consumer connections can handle in a reasonable time, and with the rate at which they have been advancing, it's likely to be longer then two years before we see something worth while (by my quick math, until 30Mbps real-world performance connections become prevalent, we're not going to see much mainstream success here).
100% agree. And to further the point, with cable companies throttling the amount of Internet a household can use per month, viewing Blu Ray quality movies through the Internet becomes even less of a reality.
until then, I will stick with NetFlix. Great stock of Blu Rays and I always get what I want to see. No complaints.