Boz Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Would optical media have been "done" if HD-DVD had won Boz? :rofl: Sure it would.. The difference was that HD DVD was a transitional vehicle. That's why it supported much better online interactivity and network on devices when it came out. There was no question about that. It should've given DVD manufacturing with higher quality but it was never intended to be a long term format because Toshiba and Microsoft had interests in flash memory, online distribution and so forth. Optical will live for a while until internet doesn't pick up speed more in certain parts of the world and States but in the next 5 years it should be the main way of delivering content, while optical will be less and less just like CDs or VHS was. No difference. It's a dying technology. No point investing into it. I'd rather see movies, games and items that can be delivered via online to be more and more present. EA is definitely a step in good direction. Others will soon follow. Let's not forget that you could have digital download delivery that users can go to retail stores to a kind of a kiosk (those who don't have internet at home) and just download the whole game to Flash drive or whatever. Any way you look at it, optical is pretty much done in not too distant future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted May 6, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted May 6, 2009 Sure it would.. The difference was that HD DVD was a transitional vehicle. That's why it supported much better online interactivity and network on devices when it came out. There was no question about that. It should've given DVD manufacturing with higher quality but it was never intended to be a long term format because Toshiba and Microsoft had interests in flash memory, online distribution and so forth.Optical will live for a while until internet doesn't pick up speed more in certain parts of the world and States but next 5 years, should be the main way of delivering content, while optical will be less and less just like CDs or VHS was. No difference. It's a dying technology. Boz general consumers don't give a rats ass about semantics, physical is physical, digital is digital, a name badge is a name badge (in regards to HD-DVD/Blu Ray). When those people are truly ready to go completely digital they'll be the ones to decide. The market has to work by the lowest common denominator, they don't, then they loss a lot of sales from people not able to download gigabytes/terrabytes of data a month. We'll be co-riding physical/digital options for many years to come, neither has to die, yet, if you want digital so badly choose it, let other people keep buying physical, no one gets hurt or loses out. There's certain things that can go completely digitally before others, HD movies at gigabytes of data aren't really the friendliest of the list to go digital only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boz Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Boz general consumers don't give a rats ass about semantics, physical is physical, digital is digital, a name badge is a name badge (in regards to HD-DVD/Blu Ray).When those people are truly ready to go completely digital they'll be the ones to decide. The market has to work by the lowest common denominator, they don't, then they loss a lot of sales from people not able to download gigabytes/terrabytes of data a month. We'll be co-riding physical/digital options for many years to come, neither has to die, if you want digital so badly choose it, let other people keep buying physical, no one gets hurt or loses out. No.. i"m talking optical media. Physical distribution will be present. It will be in the form of flash drives and SD cards you can take to the retail store, plug it into a high speed internet connected kiosk and download movies or games onto it IMO. Optical media by itself will be done. It's inferior in so many ways it's not even funny (speed, capacity growth, read/write etc). It's really weird it lasted this long. I guess we didn't have cheaper alternatives with SD cards and internet delivery so it lingered on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_dandy_ Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 And why the hell not? %EASPORTSFRANCHISE% 2009 is just %EASPORTSFRANCHISE% 2008 + minor updates, right? They've been doing that for over a decade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si7777 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 I can see this becoming more commonplace, and becoming more prevelant on consoles, soon. Physical media will still be around also, but will not be the only option any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyDX Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 IMHO the game world can go digital as soon as every citizen has a uncapped 600kb/s+ line, before that EA will kill off to much potential customers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deletedxyz Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Fine then, EA Sports... I'm going to play Pro Evolution Soccer instead and hopefully they will be able to get the licensing issues taken care of too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 IMHO the game world can go digital as soon as every citizen has a uncapped 600kb/s+ line, before that EA will kill off to much potential customers you mean 6Mbps , right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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