I think that the whole blu ray vs zune thing stems from the PS3 vs 360 fight, in the end Blu ray will become the new standard and zune will be relegated to obvlivion once Apple releases a new Ipod with fast streaming.
Zune as a platform has already failed versus the Ipod Touch and Iphone and no ammount of technological advances will reposition it let alone make it a standard. The tech heads will probably go crazy over it for a while but the general consumers will rather wait for Apple to do the same, or expect the DSi or PSP to do so accordingly.
True, digital downloads are the future but it's still too far away to kill physical media, and there is still wariness that all the media you can buy today might be useless tomorrow with the changes in streaming, the restrictions of playback systems and the server side storage that might become so huge that will start to delete some stuff and make our "buy" useless.
Digital downloads might replace blockbuster since I see it more as a rental system than as a way to buy movies while blu ray will replace DVDs.
Zune as a platform has already failed versus the Ipod Touch and Iphone and no ammount of technological advances will reposition it let alone make it a standard. The tech heads will probably go crazy over it for a while but the general consumers will rather wait for Apple to do the same, or expect the DSi or PSP to do so accordingly.
True, digital downloads are the future but it's still too far away to kill physical media, and there is still wariness that all the media you can buy today might be useless tomorrow with the changes in streaming, the restrictions of playback systems and the server side storage that might become so huge that will start to delete some stuff and make our "buy" useless.
Digital downloads might replace blockbuster since I see it more as a rental system than as a way to buy movies while blu ray will replace DVDs.
I second that to an extent. Hardware-wise the zune has some kickass features that apple just left out. I can only vouch for the limited months I owned a zune 80 but compared to my ipod classic, wifi sync and the ability to copy music BACK to the pc was huge. Anyways to stick to the topic, physical medias are necessitated by the ever morphing digital formats between companies.
Honestly its a miracle that in the fight between AAC, OGG, FLAC, and MP3, that there still lies the unadulterated purity of a physical CD. With Microsoft having the capabilities it does, it starts out with supporting partners out of the gate. Having bought the Sidekick design company DANGER not too long ago, and owning rights to chip technologies, should it design a phone concept or even a Kindle situation with dedicated streaming over cellular data, it has the resources.
Blu-ray/DVD's/CD's are all becoming the medium of the "impatient" so to speak. With bandwidth expanding into residential homes, and fiber pipelines popping up here and there, its no-surprise the incredible push for streaming media.
Honestly its a miracle that in the fight between AAC, OGG, FLAC, and MP3, that there still lies the unadulterated purity of a physical CD. With Microsoft having the capabilities it does, it starts out with supporting partners out of the gate. Having bought the Sidekick design company DANGER not too long ago, and owning rights to chip technologies, should it design a phone concept or even a Kindle situation with dedicated streaming over cellular data, it has the resources.
Blu-ray/DVD's/CD's are all becoming the medium of the "impatient" so to speak. With bandwidth expanding into residential homes, and fiber pipelines popping up here and there, its no-surprise the incredible push for streaming media.
Simply stating '1080p' doesn't imply that the quality will be equivalent to Blu-Ray... What is the planned bit rate? Also, if you have a 8-10 Mb/s connection, who has one that is reliable enough to get it consistently for 2 hrs? Any time I have a BW issue, customer service is happy to remind me that I don't have a 'guaranteed' service since I am residential. This may work for some, but nowhere near the majority.
@gtu101
Apple left out major selling points on purpose. This is what every electronics manufacturing company does.
Why give the consumer tech that is 10 steps ahead of there last selling point. Let's give them only 5 steps and in due time we will come with a newer version of it.
By this type of marketing strategy sales will be at least 50% more than what is projected.
Watch out for the new iPOD A.K.A the Zune HD killer... Microsoft has and always will be out done.
Apple left out major selling points on purpose. This is what every electronics manufacturing company does.
Why give the consumer tech that is 10 steps ahead of there last selling point. Let's give them only 5 steps and in due time we will come with a newer version of it.
By this type of marketing strategy sales will be at least 50% more than what is projected.
Watch out for the new iPOD A.K.A the Zune HD killer... Microsoft has and always will be out done.
