Wost Tech Products of 2007

[Uisce Beatha]

Now, if they'd let me download and burn...   

Good point aske.  Bandwidth is another huge hurdle and they will try to beat it through compression/downres which won't appeal at all to the targeted early adopters. 

IIRC (sorry, I'm a bit occupied mentally on real work to actually recrank it or let alone even think about it)    but it would take about a sustained 3Mb/s (Mb, not MB)  running 24hours to get about a 30GB file downloaded.     to stream it in real time would take an initial burst of 20-30x that and a sustained pipe of about 10-15x that .     imagine everyone and their neighbors DL'ing 2-3 movies a week to watch even.
 

So they'll go SD only such as ITMS supports (actually, only "near-DVD" quality at 640x480).  Apple is currently charging $12.99 for new releases which, on the surface, is cheaper than a hard copy.  But at a couple of GB each (am I right on this ITMS movie buyers???) people will soon have to buy drives to support this purchasing paradigm.

HD crowd won't even blink at it.

But five years is a long time aske.  I think it's possible/likely.