QUOTE(prplehz @ Jan 20 2008, 02:02 AM)
First post, woot! What ever happend to the days when a movie was just a movie, lmao!
It becomes a major issue when you've got a big TV. Standard definition is pretty bad when you start blowing it up massively. Check out SD on even a 42inch TV and you'll understand why its a big issue.
While I may agree with the article your average consumer won't notice much of a difference, if at all, as long as their TV isn't 60+ inches. However, once you start blowing things up massively you can easily tell the difference between a blu-ray disk and a 720P Xbox Live video. Projectors are becoming cheaper and soon anyone who wants a massive 1080P home theater can have it for about the cost of your average PC. When this happens people will start appreciating blu-ray and HD-DVD a lot more and these online services will either be forced to adjust to the times or loose massive amounts of customers in the process.
Unfortunately we're seeing ISP's placing ridiculous caps on connections so it'll be hard for online services to even find demand for high bandwidth videos unless things change drastically. For example, Comcast's cap is around 250GB a month in some areas. A complete blu-ray download could be as much as 50GB. Not only would ISP's have to adjust the download caps massively, they would also have to increase speeds too. With that comes astronomical upgrade costs and like the article states, Docsis 3.0 most likely won't be able to handle this even. It'll be interesting to see how things play out in the future.
On a side note, It's times like this I'm happy I've got FiOS. (IMG:
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This post has been edited by sgr215: Jan 20 2008, 09:30 AM