Ermm DVD has lasted years and will continue to last for years until HD disks become standard.
I would say the next best thing would be an HTPC for streaming, not Sky because its just satellite. What your saying is that Sky will eventually streaming films at 720p/1080p (it already does 720p/1080i) and that will kill the new Hi Def DVD market? Highly highly doubt that.
no you have the wrong idea lmao
I think there's also a backdrop here that needs to be discussed: In 2007, DVD sales softened significantly. For the first time in a number of years, they flattened and started to go down, which echoes what's been happening with CDs for most of the decade.
Now, there's a big difference between downloading a six-megabyte song from iTunes versus downloading a conventional movie that's about 700 MB, versus an HD movie which is how many gigabytes. So obviously the sense of scale is significantly different between audio and video/movie and high-def content, but there are lessons in the CD and now the DVD experience. DVD is a mature medium. You've pretty much sold as many players to consumers as you're going to sell; what you're selling today are replacement devices. As well as discs, everyone has a fairly sizable collection of DVDs that they've bought over the years, and they don't really see the need to continue to add to that at the same pace that they have in years past because they only have so much shelf space.
And at the same time, the perceived differences between high-def DVDs...Never mind that the format war has caused people to take a wait-and-see attitude, and to hold onto their DVDs longer, but now that we have the DVDs in our library, for most of us, that's good enough. For most of us, an upconverting DVD player, or throwing an old DVD onto a new player, on a high-def set, is good enough for now. We're not willing to spend hundreds of dollars on new players and thousands of dollars to replace our media, simply to get a few extra lines of resolution. The technical quality jump between DVD and Blu-ray is smaller than the technical quality jump was between video cassette and DVD was a decade ago. So there isn't this great, big push to abandon DVDs, but at the same time, consumers are tired of them, and they're starting to winnow down their purchasing patterns.
this is why hd/blue ray disks won't take over like dvds did and why internet streaming will take hold!!
plus i wasn't talking about steaming on sky i ment internet streaming when fiber comes in the uk as standerd which should be by 2010-2015
the plan via bt is to have 30-50mb sec links in houses which will be able to stream full hd/blue ray movies via the net
One of the reasons why there were two formats duking it out for the longest time, was because of a disagreement between the major players over how to handle the issue of something called managed copy. It involved a player's direct connection to the Internet, and in the future, for those consoles that had burning capabilities, it would presumably enable that Internet connection to be able to download and distribute the movies as well, and you could burn your own Blu-ray or HD DVD copy, depending on how the managed copy was implemented. But at the very least, it would enable somebody who had purchased a disc to maybe make one backup copy, but not two. And that still required an Internet connection because the studio would serve as a broker for that.
