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Originally Posted by candyflip
I think I posted something to this extent about 2 years ago. Digital downloads is the future.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
If you have Netflix membership you don't have to really "buy" anything, just rent it.
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yeah itunes and xbox live also have digital downloading of HD movies. The future? yeah in 2020 maybe.
First of all most people do not have a connection fast enough to make downloading HD content convenient.
Secondly what most people don't realize their HD content isn't really HD. Itunes has half the bit rate of regular DVD and XBL has just under the bit rate of DVD. A HD download from XBL isn't going to look anywhere near as good as blu-ray or hd-dvd version of the same movie. In fact a upconverted dvd version of a movie would look better than a "HD" download from XBL or itunes.
bit rates
Blu-ray 40 mbps
HD-DVD 28 mbps
OTA HD 19.39 mbps
Cable HD 16 mbps
DirectTV HD 10 mbps
DVD 8 mbps
XBOX Live HD 6.8 mbps
Itunes HD 4 mbps