I don't agree that Digital Downloads are the future. I personally like owning a physical copy of my media. The idea of VoD is a good one, but that is different from buying the content, that is just renting it. When I actually buy the content I want to own something with the content on it rather than a volatile HDD with an image of it.
Taking games as an example. I currently own ~30 360 games. That means I would need a HDD that is over 250gb built into my 360, and then when I want more games I would need more HDD. Also if the HDD died it would take ages to download the games again. Changing HDDs would be no different from changing discs, so having numerous smaller HDD is no alternative.
Plus the current ADSL network is so poor, that downloading HD movies would be very tedious.
You mean your HD isn't physical? Or you don't think you'd be able to rip and burn that digital file on your physical HD onto a disk? Or do you mean you prefer low rez DVDs which are shown to deteriorate over time, are prone to scratches and damage preventing them from playing and take up tons of space? You still own records I bet.
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mattclarkie @ Feb 14th 2008 2:21PM
I don't agree that Digital Downloads are the future. I personally like owning a physical copy of my media. The idea of VoD is a good one, but that is different from buying the content, that is just renting it. When I actually buy the content I want to own something with the content on it rather than a volatile HDD with an image of it.
Taking games as an example. I currently own ~30 360 games. That means I would need a HDD that is over 250gb built into my 360, and then when I want more games I would need more HDD. Also if the HDD died it would take ages to download the games again. Changing HDDs would be no different from changing discs, so having numerous smaller HDD is no alternative.
Plus the current ADSL network is so poor, that downloading HD movies would be very tedious.
Rick @ Feb 14th 2008 4:48PM
You mean your HD isn't physical? Or you don't think you'd be able to rip and burn that digital file on your physical HD onto a disk? Or do you mean you prefer low rez DVDs which are shown to deteriorate over time, are prone to scratches and damage preventing them from playing and take up tons of space? You still own records I bet.