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You are confusing and combining rental with buying. I have yet to read where any studio is allowing downloading of their movies in full high definition for purchase.

High-speed Internet isn't available to everybody in this country. Running down to the corner video store pretty much is. I prefer holding a movie in my hands then managing gigs worth of data on a hard drive.

I think you are missing the author's point. In the future do you really think we will be carrying around little discs? Although Blu-ray has a niche right now I too do not think the media will last more than five years; it will be totally gone in ten.

There are no high-def download services. None. There is no way to download 20GB of data over the Internet. So where is this BS coming from? There seems to be a deliberate scheme to fool people into believing that a 16x9 low-bit-rate movie is "HD."

Read the posts in this threadand contribute your own opinion.

Please watch suggesting a jump drive with U3. I and a lot of other people have had nightmare stories with U3 software--up to and including full system crashes when plugged in. ... I'm sure it works with some systems, but I would not want to be the one crashing someone else's system.