[Mr.T]

"AZ Nomad" wrote in message
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If I want to sell a HD/BR movie for a buck, so be it.

Why on earth would you want to make such a huge loss on the cost of
the
blank disks?
Not to mention the current cost of HD/BR writers you would also need
to
pay.

AZ didn't say "sell a disc" he said "sell a movie".
With online delivery, no disc is involved. Perhaps
you didn't read the entire context of the paragraph.

I see, and just how many HD/BR movies are delivered on-line I wonder at
20-40 GB per movie?
Probably cheaper to buy the original disk!

The same was said twenty years about megabyte images or ten years ago
about CD images. Who could possibly copy a CD? They're huge!

OK, it wasn't stated anyone was talking about ten or twenty years from now.
Probably a lot less IMO, but double layer DVD blanks are still a lot more
expensive than single layer, and even less reliable. So most pirate DVD's
are not even up to standard def DVD levels.
I won't be holding my breath for blue-ray writers and disks to fall to
current DVDR prices though. Reliability/longevity of the disks is also
another unknown compared to the original pressed disks.

And as for on-line delivery, It may well be ten years or more before most
people can regularly download a single 20GB+ movie!
DivX isn't the current popular choice for nothing. But yeah, 20 years from
now anything is possible.

MrT.