Kittonwy said:
Ima certainly NOT satisfied with teh quality of HD cable.
I have ExpressVu HD, and some stuff looks good. But, it doesn't come close to my BD movies. How can it? I have movies spiking at 40+ Mbps for the video bitrate alone. There is no consumer grade, affordable Internet service that even comes close to that.
Streaming 1080p movies of the same quality as BD will NEVER be possible without an infrastructure that:
1. supports 100 Mbps without any hiccups, for all consumers (hundreds of millions of consumes in North America alone)
2. allows people to use their bandwidth at full bore without penalty
3. charges consumers between $25 to $50 per month, max
So, forget the 10 year projections for North America. We're looking at a massive basic telecom infrastructure upgrade that will take 20 to 25 years to reach even 50% completion.
We'll have disc based movies for a long, long, long time to come.