Well, If i'm generous and assume that someone provides a nice little set-top box into which i can plug a 64Gb flash drive with a movie on it and just watch the thing, buying a HD movie on a flash stick goes something like:
1)Choose Movie
2)Go to download station, select movie again, plug in drive, pay
3)Scratch my arse for 15 minutes* while it transfers, since i'm not leaving my £100 flash stick unguarded
4)Once home, scratch my arse for 15 minutes* while movie transfers to some other medium so I can use my £100 flash stick again
5)Watch movie \o/
* 15 minutes assumes remarkable advances in getting flash drive write speeds as high as USB 2.0 transport speeds. As things stand, it's more like an hour.
As opposed to the blu-ray option, which is basically the same, except without the half an hour of arse scratching. Oh, and i can grab a blu-ray disc from a bargain bin in a petrol station on the spur of the moment, and I can buy more than one at once...
Flash is expensive, optical media isn't. By the time this nonsense becomes practical, the HD movie downloads of the (distant) future will be a reality.
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Flash drives for movies? Crazy talk
Well, If i'm generous and assume that someone provides a nice little set-top box into which i can plug a 64Gb flash drive with a movie on it and just watch the thing, buying a HD movie on a flash stick goes something like:
1)Choose Movie
2)Go to download station, select movie again, plug in drive, pay
3)Scratch my arse for 15 minutes* while it transfers, since i'm not leaving my £100 flash stick unguarded
4)Once home, scratch my arse for 15 minutes* while movie transfers to some other medium so I can use my £100 flash stick again
5)Watch movie \o/
* 15 minutes assumes remarkable advances in getting flash drive write speeds as high as USB 2.0 transport speeds. As things stand, it's more like an hour.
As opposed to the blu-ray option, which is basically the same, except without the half an hour of arse scratching. Oh, and i can grab a blu-ray disc from a bargain bin in a petrol station on the spur of the moment, and I can buy more than one at once...
Flash is expensive, optical media isn't. By the time this nonsense becomes practical, the HD movie downloads of the (distant) future will be a reality.