Dish Network to Offer 1080p VOD?!

Originally Posted by The_Omega_Man

If they ever enable all of the USB ports for the connection of extra HDD storage on the various DVRs, watch out!

Originally Posted by anythingwt

I don't think this is the nail in physical medias coffin(ignore my sarcastic previous post)

People enjoy owning a hard copy of a disc in my opinion. I know I do.. Its nice to have a big collection of movies to display and pick from. Having a downloaded copy on a DVR won't give people that feeling of ownership. When someone spends their money on a movie, wouldn't you think that they would much rather prefer having something physical to show for it, as opposed to 4gb on their hard drive.

Movies will go the way of the ipod eventually, but this is not that solution.

Originally Posted by anythingwt

I don't think this is the nail in physical medias coffin(ignore my sarcastic previous post)

People enjoy owning a hard copy of a disc in my opinion. I know I do.. Its nice to have a big collection of movies to display and pick from. Having a downloaded copy on a DVR won't give people that feeling of ownership. When someone spends their money on a movie, wouldn't you think that they would much rather prefer having something physical to show for it, as opposed to 4gb on their hard drive.

Movies will go the way of the ipod eventually, but this is not that solution.

Originally Posted by PFC5

I like physical media also, but that doesn't seem to be the trend with most of the current generation of teenagers & young adults.

I think this COULD impact BD if it comes to pass before BD catches on in sufficient numbers, but I think the window Warner was talking about just got smaller now.

Originally Posted by anythingwt

Since this is dish network specific, I don't see it even making a debt in BDs progression. The young adult generation likes simplicity. When they make an ipod type device, with a minimum of 1 terabyte of space to store a decent collection of 1080p movies, BD and physical media will be in trouble. I'd love to own something like that, with an itunes type program to manage your movies, and a good selection to choose from, all in 1080p. It wouldn't hurt to make it look fancy and cutting edge like the ipod. This generation loves that

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

This goes back to what I have been saying for months. Without additional bandwidth for broadband connections HD movie downloads are going to be extremely slow to take off with the public. The mass public is not going to wait hours at a time for an HD show to download to their PC, HDTV, or other device. Right now the broadband speeds are lagging behind the available resolution and that is what is going to continue to hurt HD downloads until the problem is solved.