ATT and Verizon kill streaming, promote Blu-Ray ;-)
Just wanted to note for all those who keep saying plastic physical media is dead (see any Blu-Ray thread), that pricing per gigabyte is likely to show up at a home network near you as well. A DVD quality movie is about 7 to 8 Gigabytes; a Blu-Ray quality movie is about 40 Gigabytes. As a prior poster pointed out, even Netflix will use up your 2GB in a few hours of streaming. iTunes video rentals to your iPad? Same deal.
It is A LOT cheaper to buy DVDs and Blu-Ray discs under these data rate pricing schemes than to "rent" them per play.
So unless and until we get realistic streaming rates (and for now, at least, home internet is still "unlimited" but I think not for much longer), physical media has higher quality and is cheaper.
Just wanted to note for all those who keep saying plastic physical media is dead (see any Blu-Ray thread), that pricing per gigabyte is likely to show up at a home network near you as well. A DVD quality movie is about 7 to 8 Gigabytes; a Blu-Ray quality movie is about 40 Gigabytes. As a prior poster pointed out, even Netflix will use up your 2GB in a few hours of streaming. iTunes video rentals to your iPad? Same deal.
It is A LOT cheaper to buy DVDs and Blu-Ray discs under these data rate pricing schemes than to "rent" them per play.
So unless and until we get realistic streaming rates (and for now, at least, home internet is still "unlimited" but I think not for much longer), physical media has higher quality and is cheaper.