There could be a brief window of opportunity for Sony with Blu-ray and hence PS3 before digital delivery swamps the entire world forever. Well, the whole world that has better download speeds than say the Australian outback or the United Kingdom. A new report from respected financial analysts (yes, apparently they still exist), Price Waterhouse Coopers, called '
Global Entertainment and Media' 'proves' it.
You can buy the entire report here... for around U$900.
Videobusiness, which apparently has bought the report,
states:
"(the report says that)...digital sales won’t come near that of Blu-ray in the next five years. This despite the fact that there are already more digital delivery devices in the home connected to the TV than Blu-ray players, thanks largely to the Xbox 360.
"Microsoft had sold an estimated 15 million Xbox 360 consoles in North America through 2008, and there are probably another million-plus TiVos, Roku Digital Media Players, AppleTVs and Vudu players capable of streaming HD content in homes."