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If you guys think 2012 is a good time frame for Blu-Ray to pass DVD, don't you think digital downloads, SD and HD combined, will pass both by then?]]>Jun 26th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/
Are you talking renting or buying?

If you are talking Renting, then I think the only thing holding it back will be the state of Broadband in the United States. I think you need at least 12-16mbits / second to provide a kind of instant-start experience you can get off of say On-Demand or you will need more advanced compression techniques than AVC where you can get these files down to about 5GB total for a 1280x720p/24 with 5.1 sound at 2 hours and not too much compression. Also with all but Verizon announcing that they are looking at caps on broadband, that will also limit some of the uptake on downloaded rentals.

If you are talking buying, besides the broadband limitations listed above. I need to have someway of backing up and/or a way of making a disc readable on a standard Blu-Ray player (BD-5 and BD-9 or BD-25 and BD-50 if I have a BD burner). There is no way, I am going to purchase a movie via a download service if it is depending on the reliability of a hard drive in either a computer, game console, or dedicated device like an Apple TV. It's a deal breaker even if the service allows me to re-download in the event of a failure, a moderately sized collection (50 to 100 movies) could easily take up 500GB to 1TB and it would literally takes days or weeks to re-download. And if Caps are common, you could literally take up 4 months (at Comcast's 250GB Cap) if you did nothing else but download your movies back...or you one have one hell of an overage bill.

Here is what I see in 2012.

Blu-Ray is the reference format for HD movies (What I would use for the movies I really like and want the best possible copy of).

Downloads would be for either rentals or for lesser titles that I don't necessarily want to pay full price for but would not mind having at the right price (say $9.99) as long as it was at least 720p/24 at 5.1 Dolby Digital.


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OMG! I have to share and manage my queue manually? BOYCOTT.

I didn't even know what they were until now. ]]>Jun 26th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/1. ESPN
2. ESPN 2
3. ESPN News
4. ESPN Classic
5. ESPN U (All College)
6. ESPN Deportes (Spanish ESPN)

Now for Blu-Ray... call me when movies cost 15 dollars on Blu. ]]>Jun 26th 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/Jun 27th 2008 12:50AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/
Movies need not have explosions, battle scenes, fast-paced action, high hilarity or happy endings to be considered a great movie experience. Sometimes, a disturbing, challenging, fascinating, unexpected movie will provide a higher quality use of your time.

What would you consider your top dramatic movies of all time? Movies without any significant action or comedy.]]>Jun 27th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/
my projector (optoma hd70 makes far more noise than my 360 does) and both are about the same distance from my ear.]]>Jun 27th 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/Jun 28th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/
"The Netflix site was designed without profiles, then features were added continuously for a few years, then profiles were added, but with minimum disruption to existing features, rather than a ground-up redesign, then a few more years of features were added over the top.

Now in some ways its too messy and its slowing down our ability to change and add new features, so a lot of investment is going into cleaning up the code. Part of that cleanup is to simplify and re-implement things so that we can get more interesting and advanced things done more quickly in the future. For this feature that is used by a percent or two of the user base, it will make cleanup a lot faster by removing it."



http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2008/06/the-reason-netf.html]]>Jun 29th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/
And I don't understand why your so dismissive of the people being pissed off at the netflix thing. I don't have Netflix, but it is a service that customers use, pay, and like. If they change something against the customers wishes, how is it not reasonable to expect some outrage? Isn't the netlix profiles something that hardcore customers use? So why would they get rid of something that their best customers APPARENTLY love?

It's kinda like windows getting rid of games. Sure only a small percentage really use that feature but blah blah blah.

Oh yeah, and I think you're seeing longer posts because Firefox has that built in spell-checker. :)]]>Jul 1st 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/26/engadget-hd-podcast-090-06-26-2008/Jul 4th 2008 7:34PM