Washington, D.C. (March 12, 2008) -- Digital downloads via Broadband connections are years away from replacing Blu-ray high-def and standard-def DVDs.
That's the consensus of top Hollywood studio executives, as reported today by Video Business.
Apple, Microsoft, TiVo and NetFlix have all (or will soon) launched services that allow home viewers to download TV shows and movies from the Net to their TVs.
However, during a Content Delivery and Storage Association conference panel this month, four studio officials said downloads are no threat to physical media because they are too complicated and take too long to download.
For instance, some high-def movies can take hours to download before the viewer can begin to watch.
"I don't think we have to be worried about the replacement of physical media for some time," said Benn Carr, Disney's vice president of new technology, according to Video Business. "Downloading sales are not going to 'hockey-stick' soon. Every time I access a site and download, it's not necessarily seamless."
Sven Davidson, vice president of content development for Fox, was even more critical:
"Demand for downloading is very small and the satisfaction is smaller," he said. "The pipelines aren't big enough."
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You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
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The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
Wow, for once Hollywood is right about something!
Scary.
Digital downloads are the future. As in, way, way in some hypothetical future with flying cars and Playstation 14's. For the FORSEEABLE future, I think people will always prefer the satisfaction that owning a physical copy of a movie will bring.
I know I own plenty of movies I haven't actually watched since I bought them. Doesn't mean I don't like them or don't want them, it just means I wanted the satisfaction of owning it, putting it on my DVD shelf, and being able to watch it with friends at some point in the future.
Good luck replicating that experience with digital downloads. Digital downloads will replace RENTING movies long before they replace BUYING movies.
DUUUH and its not like its going to OMG ABOLISH physical formats forvever lmao. Itunes and napster sure didn't CD's!!! And movies will be FOVEVER before we are downloading 1080p Blu Ray quality movies and BUYING THEM with all the extras and behind the scenes and bloopers. Micrsoft is a SCAM. THEY DONT WANT TO LOSE BUT ALREADY HAVE. Sony's big dong too, Microbucks hahahaahhahaa and they have the whole industry....including you.... behind them for a reason.... and not because Blu Ray is going to fail.
Yeah this is true, digital downloads are just not ready
The sound of a thousand xbox fanboys simultaneously slitting their wrists.
Looks like your backup plan has gone to sh*t as well. Maybe now you can latch onto VMD or DivX? How about TVersity?