How long will Blueray be around?
Are we going to be download movies soon from the net?
Are ( will be)they in a 1080p format
Who knows how long Blu-ray will be around for. I'm hoping a long time though.
Movie downloads is a great idea BUT a lot of people keep forgetting about some thing. BANDWIDTH. I don't know about your provider but mine already caps my data usage and will charge me extra for going over.
Also, I've heard it currently takes between 5-6 hours to d/l a movie and these are not even 1080p yet, only 720p and highly compressed. A lot of people call them DVD+ or HD_Lite movies due to the amount of compression they use. Another thing is they don't have is lossless sound, just Dolby Digital.
But you can already d/l HD movies via Xbox Live or the PS3 Store (what ever they call theirs) but again, they are only 720p. They do have some movie trailers in 1080p though. I have d/l a few 1080p movie trailers and I was not impressed with the quality. Most looked like DVD or little better.
Another issue is what happens when you hard drive crashes and you need to get all your movies back? Doesn't iTunes make you repurchase everything when that happens?