Well that system is already sort of in place, except the SWAT part ( ). Here we have sort of movie rental, i can access a movie through the cable tv. The library isnt very big but still i have somekind of choice. And the movie cost will be added to the monthly bill. The money buys access to the film for 24h and can be watched as many times any time i want. A movie costs roughly around 4$-10$/24h.

That's just a typical additional service (and very greedy one by the way) that you might choose to use or not. I was speaking of a general try to make any movie available only in that way, and everything through central places, that again report back to their central places what happens. That would be weird. I think many people would start recording their own free (CC-BY-SA, GFDL, whatever) movies.

Yea, consumers don't go for that typically. Most consumers are fine renting some things, but permanent purchase is important. They want to be able to buy a movie and watch it whenever and wherever they choose.. either at home on their tv, or on their laptop in an airplane (no internet connection), or with a portable dvd player, or whatever. As time goes on, portability is becoming more and more important. Which is why this DRM crap is going to end up pissing off a lot of people.

Anyway, a blueray disk has (I believe) 25GB of storage capacity, as opposed to 8GB on a typical movie DVD. The movie is stored at 1080p resolution instead of whatever DVDs are (720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL)). 1080p is 1920x1080 resolution, progressive scan. So, technically, somewhere around 2x the resolution of DVD.

But you can get an upsampling DVD player and your DVDs will look better. Plus to see the difference you really need to have an HD tv (preferably one that supports 1080p). The audio I think is also higher quality. On top of that, they're supposed to support greater interactivity (like changing camera angles mid movie) and can hold more extras. However, DVDs have pretty much proven that people buy a movie for the movie, not the extras or additional camera angles or director commentary.

Bleh, sorry for the novel. I guess we could store it on a blue ray.

Director commentary wtf? "Please sell that to ADORING FANS only."

I totally agree. Id rather have some 3rd world country movie to go with the disc instead of the Director commentary and any other crap they want to hype.

heh thanks for that Satis. So, the short story is, that yes, it is just basically a bigger storage, higher resolution DVD. Nothing *that* amazing really...

Sometimes director commentary's are fun... though the only ones I can think of are the Evil Dead ones, and I'd STILL rather just watch the movie itself.