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Originally Posted by Ruined
A few things.
3) Finally, I think some perceive downloads wrong - thinking that you won't want to own 500 movies on a set-top hard drive. Once we get some quality set-top boxes in, I don't think you will need to worry about buying that many movies anymore. A good STB should have IMDB-like info available for all your movies in easy to browse format w/ cover art sortable by genre, etc. If you want to watch a movie, it costs you $5. While there might be 10 or even 20 movies you might want to watch more than 5 times that would justify buying them, that is a far stretch from 500. I have a shitload of DVDs and I must say most of them I haven't watch more than 1-3 times max. If I had rented those, I would have saved a shitload of money. We don't rent now because its nice to have the library to browse through... But if you can have that same library without owning the movie at your fingertips with the covers, actor info, etc, whats the big difference? And before you say long download time, its quite obvious that will be gone in the next couple of years also:
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I do like the idea of downloading movies I'm not sure I would watch more than once, (I too have shitloads I've only watched once or twice ), but I also want it to be the best presentation possible. The Apple TV would be appealing if it was a true 1080p presentation instead of 720p unconverted to 1080p.
I'm trying to change my buying habits, since changing to Blu-Ray, I still have that collector mentality but I'm working on it, I just keep reminding myself about how much I spent on DVDs.