Consider this comment my entry =)

"Buyer" beware, a lot of those dates and times are wrong.

For example, Survivor premieres next Thursday, not this Thursday.

There are other incorrect entries.

This my friends is just one of the many reasons physical media will be around for a bit longer than the digital download set might have you think. If you're holding out on Blu-ray because you hate Sony or if you're waiting for 1080p VOD, AppleTV 1080p or any variation of those, you may want to pull up a chair for ten years or so because until fat pipes are ubiquitous (there are still people on 56k if you can believe it or not) digital downloading will be the niche and physical media will remain the standard.

Now that I think about it, they should have introduced an entirely new piece of hardware capable of 1080p with a Blu-ray player in it.

I just don't see anyone really giving a rat's ass about this with all the chatter being about 1080p, loseless audio, HD-DVD and Blu-ray at the moment.

720p with compressed to shite audio?

No thanks, I'll pass and stick with optical HDM.

Ok, how many households have at least 1TB of disk space to store movies? Better yet, how many studios are moving towards torrent swarms of HD movies?

I'll answer for you, less than 1% and zero.

Look, I'm not against digital downloads but it's just not feasible and will not be feasible to the average consumer for many years.

Until then, physical media is here to stay and all I was saying to this guy is that if he's waiting for digital downloads to become the de facto standard for the distribution of 1080p video and uncompressed audio, he's going to be HD media-less for a long time.

No no no, digital downloads are not a feasible solution as of this moment.

How many 50GB movies can you currently keep locally?

How long does it take for you to download 30-50GB?

I thought so, until the backbone exists to deliver that kind of data and store it cheaply, physical media is here to stay.

Eventually, yes, digital downloads of 1080p video and uncompressed audio will be possible but that is at least ten years off so if you're waiting for that, better pull up a chair.