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Originally Posted by brianh
broadband is becoming as common as HD now.
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Maybe so, (more common in the UK infact) however it takes about 5 hours to download an inferior quality HD movie (lower resolution and lower audio quality to Blu-ray) on my "up to 8meg" connection. I'm only allowed to download 4-5 of them a month though due to my fair usage cap (which is actually generous for a UK ISP at 30gb per month, may are under 10gb and some as low as 2gb). With things like that, I don't see downloads becoming any more than a niche for HD movies anytime soon.
Standard movies are better, can get one of them in an hour or 2 but they look awful on a HDTV. There's also the lack of ownership in most movie downloads.
Downloads or not though, I don't think anybody can deny companies dropping Blu-ray is bad news for pretty much everyone interested in home video.