Movies available in HD but not likely going Blu

[styl3s]

Originally Posted by retablo

I'd prefer to download movies and have hard drives full of them. Then I'd get all my wall space back. No more worries about scratched discs, slipcovers, packaging, and all that other nonsense. And, in theory, since the packaging typically costs the most out of all the pieces (it always did during the CD days, and probably still holds true now), then downloads should cost less. Probably won't happen, but who knows.

And then when your HDD crashes you have to re-download everything and if you are on a ISP that limits your monthly bandwidth that is another issue. I would rather just own the physical copy and not have to rely on online services to be available when i want to stream/download, have to worry about replacing HDD's and losing movies and re-downloading etc.

On top of that you rarely ever get any of the bonus features, commentary etc. and for the most part you can find the physical editions cheaper. If space is an issue and you have unlimited bandwidth i guess i could see the appeal but even then i would put my movies in binders to save room before switching to digital.