Is the importance of Blu-Ray overstated?

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dbot said:

I watch both Blu-ray and downloaded movies(internet based). At this point, the Blu-ray experience far exceeds the download experience. It takes too long for the downloaded movie to start to play and the compression kills the audio and the video. The quality is currently well below my standards.

Your cd/mp3 argument is flawed. iTunes allows you to buy individual songs rather than buying the whole album. If the service was album based rather than being song based, it would be far less successful.

You are comparing a purchase model to a rental model. The future of digital distribution is as a rental model. Meaning you will have 24 hours to watch the movie before it is deleted.

You know, you're forgetting one thing, which is that people buy HDTV:s to watch SD content with them. If they would care about the quality, they wouldn't be buying the HDTV:s, since the difference in quality of HD content on HDTV and SD content on SDTV is a lot smaller than SD content on SDTV and SD content on HDTV.