Wal-Mart Drives Price Wars To DVDs

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Originally Posted by Smokey

Sometimes it does feel like it. I have tested my 1.5 mb/s speed via couple of speed tester web sites, and the highest speed I get is about 900 kb/s. And that is after midnight.

No, this is actual fact. If you do the calculations with what geoffcin mentioned about his 15 mb speed (dividing it by 8) and how much time it takes to dowload a certain size, it turns out to be pretty close!
However, I'm not sure how you're managing 900kb with a 1.5 meg connection

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Originally Posted by Geoffcin

I'll argue that your both right AND wrong. DVD is old tech for sure, but BlueRay is also soon to be supplanted by online download tech. With cheap hard drives exceeding 1Tb soon to be ubiquitous, and fast downloading topping 1mb/s, downloading movies in full HD will soon (within 5 years) be the way a lot people get their movies.

Even now in my house the kids all use the HD-DVR or HBO on demand for movies, and my big project now is building a Multi-media computer with a massive storage so I can archive all my movies/cds/HD-dvd's, and assorted vids and pics. The one box multi-media convergence is the wave of the future.

You and I are in agreement about downloads.
BUT one of the reasons I championed Blu is as a collectors format.
There will always be those who want a hard copy, and not a home brew.
I was hoping BLU would get established enough to fill this role.
AND MY 1TB hd WAS CHEAPER THAN DIRT, btw

[Geoffcin]

Originally Posted by pixelthis

You and I are in agreement about downloads.
BUT one of the reasons I championed Blu is as a collectors format.
There will always be those who want a hard copy, and not a home brew.
I was hoping BLU would get established enough to fill this role.
AND MY 1TB hd WAS CHEAPER THAN DIRT, btw

My guess is that you'll be able to have it both ways.

Say you download a movie in HD from an online provider, with sophisticated copywrite protection you should be able to burn an archival BR for your collection. However, if you already have a multimedia server I can't see any reason why you would want to have a hard copy collection besides archiving.

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Originally Posted by Geoffcin

My guess is that you'll be able to have it both ways.

Say you download a movie in HD from an online provider, with sophisticated copywrite protection you should be able to burn an archival BR for your collection. However, if you already have a multimedia server I can't see any reason why you would want to have a hard copy collection besides archiving.

Thats reason enough.
I have the first mp3 I EVER DOWNLOADED, took half an hour (5 MB).
Over the next year or so I collected a ton of TV, movies, music videos, etc...
lost all of it when my power supply went bad and fried my computer.
Besides, a movie with all the frills is something I have collected for years.
Ever worth anything? NAH.
Except to me.