The problem with most of these devices is that the HD content is heavily compressed. It may look fine on a 20" monitor but when you play them on a larger screen they show significant compression artifacts, especially with fast motion, and look horrible overall. That's the reason downloads won't replace HD-DVD/Blu-Ray for a long time.
Why do you say that? On Comcast cable you can download a full 1:1 Blu-Ray/HDDVD rip of any movie in about half a day (or less) and it wouldn't be compressed at all! What's to say they won't offer something like this? It's going to be the future..
A Blu-ray Disc with a high bitrate can be 40-50GB. Just imagine how badly compressed these downloads will be to get them to a manageable size of 2-5GB. I'll stick with BD.
pcmike - Comcast is also cutting off users who download more than 100GB/month. Doesn't sound like an ideal solution to me. Just search for it on google and you'll see tons of people this is happening to.
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The problem with most of these devices is that the HD content is heavily compressed. It may look fine on a 20" monitor but when you play them on a larger screen they show significant compression artifacts, especially with fast motion, and look horrible overall. That's the reason downloads won't replace HD-DVD/Blu-Ray for a long time.
Why do you say that? On Comcast cable you can download a full 1:1 Blu-Ray/HDDVD rip of any movie in about half a day (or less) and it wouldn't be compressed at all! What's to say they won't offer something like this? It's going to be the future..
A Blu-ray Disc with a high bitrate can be 40-50GB. Just imagine how badly compressed these downloads will be to get them to a manageable size of 2-5GB. I'll stick with BD.
pcmike - Comcast is also cutting off users who download more than 100GB/month. Doesn't sound like an ideal solution to me. Just search for it on google and you'll see tons of people this is happening to.