The other key here is quality. I haven't seen Vudu's HDX downloads, but everything else in the legitimate download/streaming realm doesn't come close to Blu-Ray's quality. If you care enough to choose high-def over SD, chances are you care about picture quality enough to value Blu-Ray's bandwidth and PQ over downloading/streaming, and for the movies they care about, would only choose the latter if there were no alternative.
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The other key here is quality. I haven't seen Vudu's HDX downloads, but everything else in the legitimate download/streaming realm doesn't come close to Blu-Ray's quality. If you care enough to choose high-def over SD, chances are you care about picture quality enough to value Blu-Ray's bandwidth and PQ over downloading/streaming, and for the movies they care about, would only choose the latter if there were no alternative.
I agree Mike. I have not seen a download that looked and sounded as good as Blu-ray. Not yet anyway.