http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8706

Sounds like someone is following someone...what do you guys make of this?

can't be true. We have been told that only MS is really interested in downloads as the future of HD, that MS is not really interested in HD DVD and that Sony is fully behind optical based media. So, no, cant be just cant.:rolleyes:

omg Sony and Sun are trying to kill optical discs!

Wait! Does this mean Sony HATES Blu-Ray and wants Blu-Ray to die! After all Microsoft clearly hates HD DVD because they also offer a download service!

Simple message to all Blu-Ray fan boys
Pot Kettle Black Kettle now we'll watch you back pedal!

OMG, Someone tell Talkstr8t that he is being pushed out of a job. So much for Microsoft being the Grim Reaper of HD Optical Media.

I am blown away by this.....I also believe americans will have the option to get thier HD many different ways. I was gonna post this on the BD side but I didn't want to hear all thr crying...I still might though ....lol

Anyone who didn't see this one coming............well, let's just say they're not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Anyone who didn't see this one coming............well, let's just say they're not the brightest bulb on the tree.

$ony fanboys didn't see it coming. Nice job $ony, copying Microsoft yet again.

$ony fanboys didn't see it coming. Nice job $ony, copying Microsoft yet again.

I find it difficult to believe that even the most dyed-in-the-wool Sony fanboy doesn't understand that MS and Sony are each in the process of jockeying for dominance in an inevitable paradigm shift in content delivery and consumption. Did they earnestly believe BD and PS branded games were not in large part, simply means to a much more ambitious end? C'mon! :rolleyes:

Fanboy hysteria and rhetoric aside, this isn't really news. They've been talking about it for a year or so now, with the original plan being integration of the PS3/PSP online service with their Connect store.

Well they just sold their interest in Movielink - a DNL Service to BBI.

We have known about BD LIVE (how original) for 6+ months. Why is anyone surprised?

omg Sony and Sun are trying to kill optical discs!

+1 bazillion!

They've been talking about it for over a year.

$ony fanboys didn't see it coming. Nice job $ony, copying Microsoft yet again.

That's like saying Microsoft copied Sony by getting into gaming: it makes no sense. People throw the word 'copying' around too much - Sony would have done this regardless of whether Microsoft ever had or not; it just makes sense. In fact, this sort of thing has been talked about since the PS2 days and the battle for the "digital living room."

People need to relax.

@Amir: So you back to posting in the forum at large? ;)

Priceless!!!

<crickets> from all the Sony bois saying MS is trying to make HD media go away.

Priceless!!!

<crickets> from all the Sony bois saying MS is trying to make HD media go away.Not that I'm one of the guys claiming that MS is trying to kill optical, but the difference is that Sony will not only be making money from their download service and the hardware required to use it, but they'll also own a lot of the content on it, can use it to promote their own product, and can use it as an added incentive to buy their game consoles, which in turn has the potential to boost optical media sales.

Priceless!!!

<crickets> from all the Sony bois saying MS is trying to make HD media go away.

Please close all tags in the future. Thank you.:p

Those trying to kill Optical Disc:

MS
BBI
NF
Sony
Wal-Mart(NF)

They are trying to kill DVD . . . THAT Optical Disc!

I just posted this in the RP forum and it is relative.

This is where everything in AV is heading. Several FP LCD's BY HP I believe now have networking/ethernet built in. My 4308ci Denon has networking/ethernet and so does the PS3 of course.

I have been on the HD download mantra for months now for this very reason. All of this is heading towards downloading and away from disc media. It will just take a couple of years. As much as I like BD, the sooner the HD downloading becomes mainstream the sooner this "war" will be over and good riddens. HD downloads are right around the corner and not 10 years away as many think.

Hollywood Video, Netflix, BB and more content providers will use google's "dark fiber" and Intel's Wimax as well as OTA towers to transmit HD downloading through these boxes and ethernet ports.


The video rental chains were first brick and mortar, BB and Netflix now mail, and the next logical step is they will go with high speed downloads.

This is all just inevitable, logical common sense evolution of where HD is heading.

At least they won't be using VC-1.

At least they won't be using VC-1...Thank GOD!

Good, larger file sizes with lesser quality, a true Sony Philosophy

At least they won't be using VC-1.
VC-1 is so horrible.:rolleyes:

same servers that were hosting the music download service they just pulled the plug on? Lot of extra equipment just sitting there...putting it to good use now :D

this is already being discussed in the sticky

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=874782