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1. Comment - After HD DVD: Who benefits, and what happens next?

   (Feb 22, 2008 - 9:16 AM)

   HD quality downloads (the "streaming" argument) isn't going to be common for quite a while.
   
   The download-able 720p movies Apple is promoting have terrible video quality, with video compression levels running 1000:1. Very severe.
   
   Meanwhile the vast majority of all Internet users have connections that are way too slow for even standard DVD quality downloads to be practical, never mind going HD.
   
   Until the average Internet connection is running at speeds of 30 million to 50 million bits per second, HD quality downloads are not going to be practical. It will be at least 5 years or more before connection speeds get anywhere near that fast.
   
   Blu-ray Disc has at least 7-10 years of useful life ahead of it.