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In response to "the 360 media streaming has been an unbridled joy." by Reagen

we're now about 8 years after people started telling me here that downloadable movies were coming tomorrow, and we're just now getting there....

Posted by x, riding a unicorn of happiness over a rainbow (aka dmuck) Dec 8 '08, 09:48

i do not deny that the future is coming, but tt's technnofuturists tend to fail two ways: they don't realize how far ahead of the real mainstream they are on this stuff and they fail to acknowledge that it always takes longer than the companies say it will.

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I'll agree that it was slow, but it's exploded in just the last few months. - Mop Dec 8, 09:52 1
- i agree, it's taken off. and yet: the majority of people still watch dvd's and broadband adoption rates have stalled...nm - x, riding a unicorn of happiness over a rainbow Dec 8, 09:58

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we're now about 8 years after people started telling me here that downloadable movies were coming tomorrow, and we're just now getting there....

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