Word is Fox is dumping Blu-Ray and picking up HD-DVD. HD-DVD strikes back!

Steve Jobs (and Bill Gates) think that the hi-def war is over, and that formats will become irrelevant. I disagree with this idea, for several reasons. First, many people will not only want to rent videos, but also to own them. Secondly, how long will it take to download several gigabytes of video even over a 5Mbps connection? Such activity on a regular basis can easily go over your ISPs monthly download limit and incur extra fees. This seems like a waste of internet bandwidth for something that you can only use for a short time. Thirdly, blue-ray discs will serve other functions as well, such as archiving and backing up data.

So in short, I believe that this whole plan to implement hi-def digital video downloads over physical media will fall short of the expectations of Microsoft and Apple, and that hi-def media, especially blue-ray, will soar in popularity.

Jobs and Gates are right. Who buys a music CD anymore? Digital downloads took over music, and will take over movies.
Of course, it will be a few years. It will be when 5Mbs is considered the new 56k dial-up. It is inevitable.

The industry leading provider Adobe support BluRay exporting exclusively in her latest version Premiere CS3, not HD-DVD!

Fact of the matter is, those downloadable "HD" movies will be encoded are far lower bit rates than what goes onto Blu-ray or HD-DVD...and Apple is actually stating consumers don't want high audio quality?!?

The MP3 argument doesn't really stack up for video, Blu-ray picture quality will be very noticeably better than Apple HD - the difference between MP3 and CD audio quality is much less...

Downloadable media will only really take off once everyone has either VDSL2 or FTTH and the Internet backbone can handle the huge traffic loads that will be generated...give it at least 10 years...