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randy.duran @ Jan 4th 2008 11:21AM
Online Movie rentals will never take off until the movies can be delivered and viewed in a platform neutral way. Right now, I don't know any online rental download service that isn't Windows Only.
I'm sitting out the HD-DVD/Bluray war until there's a definitive winner (or someone hands me a player & some movies for free.)
I still think Bluray is the technicaly Superior format, but It loses on account that it's backed by Sony.
DrXym @ Jan 4th 2008 12:38PM
I think rentals will take off when we start to see services through set top boxes and consoles. It's already started to happen and the market will get pretty crowded.
I don't think anyone cares about rental. Downloadable content is a good match for rental because DRM is irrelevant. The issue is with content you own. Who the hell in their right minds would BUY a DLC movie when the quality is so much worse, there are no features, it's tied to a device, your device has finite capacity and you don't even have something to lend to others or sell on later. It's not like the price is much cheaper either. Even an XBox 360 Elite couldn't hold more than 30 HD movies, and probably less than that.
Leroy Vargas @ Jan 7th 2008 2:56PM
"Online Movie rentals will never take off until the movies can be delivered and viewed in a platform neutral way. Right now, I don't know any online rental download service that isn't Windows Only."
Not only that, but also for online 1080p-quality HD movie rentals to become a reality, internet speeds must accelerate much further from their current pace (and still maintain affordability) and wireless standards must grow up in bandwidth, and that would require investing billion$ in fiber optics to support wired Gigabit internet and also investing billion$ in both a several-GHz-wide spectrum band and ultra-linear ultra-speed RF-grade semiconductors to support wireless Gigabit internet. Don't expect such a thing within the next ten years; and even whenever such mega-fast internet were to become a reality, a newer physical format much better than both BD and HDDVD (with nine times more resolution than 1080p, twice the # of audio channels than Dolby 5.1 at double sampling rate, MPEG-7 compression, and capacity in the tens of terabytes) would've already emerged then. I even dare to predict that a newer company yet to be known, much bigger than Microsoft and Sony combined, would be at such time the new big daddy, kicking the asses of M$, Apple, Sony, Warner, Intel, and several others to the verge of almost becoming a mega-monopoly on its own right...