I think the download approach is here to stay. Bob speaks only about the legal download options (logically) and i got the impression het thinks the quality is lacking there.

But there is a very big group of people out there which up- and download and are interested in quality as well.
For example the availability of film in High Definition format is not really a problem.
My collection of DVD's is about 400-500 and i have more films in HDTV by now.

The same is true for music, the lossless comunity is growing as well, and for example FLAC support would be nice. (We do have MP3 support in players, why not the better alternative ?)

Did the not legal sharing of MP3 not proceed the legal download options for MP3 ?

Could something like that not happen for .FLAC versions of Music, or possible even HDTV format movies ?
There are some initiatives launched with a download service for HDTV content.

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