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Originally Posted by CunningStunt
I forgot I removed my Location - in Australia you can add 30% at least to your US prices.
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But that has nothing to with Sony. I'm sure anything from Australia I buy in the US is more expensive than it is where you live. That's just the way it is. I'm sure there is some hefty tax for imported stuff there.
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Originally Posted by PornMD
Who cares? Physical medium for movies will be going down the tubes soon (no pun intended) like music has already started to (dunno about you all but I haven't bought a CD in 2 years). Only a matter of time before everyone will be just buying movies digitally online and keeping their movie collection on a flash drive, memory card etc.
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Not for at least 10-12 years or more. The fact is MILLIONS of people do not have interent and don't want it. MILLIONS more want it but can't get it because the US ISPs don't deem the "profitable" enough to provide them with broadband. MILLIONS more have broadband but it's slow and once again the ISPs don't deem them "profitable" enough to upgrade their systems in those areas to provide them with faster speeds. Not to mention many ISPs now have caps limiting how much one can download. So any company that is "download only" is going to basically kissing off over half the population.
So while from a technology standpoint yes we can make physical media moot, But until the vast majority of the US has fast broadband with no caps( or very high ones ) physical media is here to stay. Because as we all know the US ISPs have no intention of making the changes that NEED to be made unless they are forced to or the government pays for it. So my 10-12 year timeline is being generous. Not to mention some people just want the physical disc.