I used to buy almost every DVD release. Because of the HD format war I drastically scaled back to reduce the risk (I was on the HD DVD side)... Glad I did...

I found that I didn't miss much by not buying movies, so now I don't bother... I download the odd movie on Live... But for the most part couldn't care less... Hollywood should just fall apart and allow gaming to take over.

Games are way better then movies... And keep the mind sharper... Especially now that games are expanding the experiences through the Wii, PS3's sphere controller, 360 with Natal, Rockband, etc.

Why sit and watch a movie where everyone has to shutup and be quiet instead of starting up a 4 person Rockband with everyone having a hoot?

Blu rays shouldn't cost more than the dvd versions, it's easy to see why it's not getting off the ground like dvd.

I have to agree that especially for TV shows like Hero's or Lost the Netflix streaming is super amazing and convienent. I've tried Netflix streaming off a PC as well and it's like 20 times faster on Live. However, compared to bluray the quality is tragic. And my connection is fast enough to get the full 1080P stream to load in seconds.

Take off your googles and see for yourself. There's no magical compression tecnique that will make a streaming movie look anywhere near a 50GB disk of uncompressed sexy.

If you'd take off your goggles you'd realize I never once compared it to a Blu-Ray disc movie.

And even if I had, the difference would not be noticeable to the avarage HD viewer, only to the videophiles.

That's what a lot of people used to say about DVD vs. Bluray, except now they simply replace the word "DVD" with "Netflix streaming".

No, that was UPSCALED DVD vs. Blu-Ray.  Which if you have a very good upscaler, again, the average viewer won't see much difference if any.

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Fancast, and many others. Netflix is nice but other services have improved more than Netflix. It's only going to get bigger once these services are built into TVs, even Sony is doing it.

There is a big difference between upscaled DVDs and Blurays. That notices everyone even the average DVD Consumer. The difference is big. Bluray will be (maybe the last) physical Media. Its necessary for Games and whats with Super HI DEF 2160p and upcoming technologys the storage will be needed and Bluray will be big. And Maybe we will look in 10 years Movies on a 125inch Screen and look Movies with 4360p with 1000GB needed. I cant imagine that streaming via Web will be another Option. We cant see how the Technology will develop.

I dont think that all Media will need always the Space as today. The Screens will be much bigger in future and the Costs will decline. Simply to the fact that there has to be something the Companies have to offer. And if everyone has a 52 inch Screen. And the Quality is perfect of the Media. Then they have to invent some new stuff so we can buy it. I am confident than the future are giant screens even flater than now maybe parabolic whit some 3d technology in it and if the Screens are giant we need a higher Resolution so the Quality can stay the same and thus we need more Capacity. And then we reached a level which via Stream cant be offered the next 20 years.

We've already gone over this a million times and it never changes the fact that DVD upscaled or not doesn't hold a candle to bluray no matter how often people try to perpetuate that lie.

And we've gone over this a million times how the bulk of the population are not HD videophile maniacs and either don't see much difference or don't care.  Upscaled DVD is good enough for them.  I don't know why some pS3eopS3le try to perpetuate this lie that everyone can and will see blu-ray as some ultimate superior format that they MUST have. Notice that you are still arguing something I am not?  Not once did I ever say DVD or Upscaled DVD or streaming is as good as Blu-Ray.  I said they look good and to the average person there isn't much noticeable difference.  There is no refuting this.  I'm sorry some people can't get over this.