Comments on: Universal chooses Blu-ray

In one of the least surprising turns of events, the studio says it will end its association with HD DVD and produce titles on Blu-ray Disc.

[Waam]

Finally I can get...

Now I can finally get:

Serenity
Transformers
Bourne series
and more... on Blu-Ray!

[TomScrace]

But What About Disks vs. Downloads?

The most interesting question, though, is how this war's victor will fare in the upcoming battle against digital downloads. With Apple and others now offering quasi-HD content for rental it seems more and more that the great Red v. Blu saga was a mere warm-up for Disks v. Downloads. The ultimate winner may seem obvious, but the route by which we get there will give us all something to write about for the next few years.

[ewelch]

Yeh, in about 10 years

With ISPs already threatening people with cutting off their accounts
for downloading too much (i.e. using more than a fraction of the
bandwidth they were promised and are paying for) there is no way
they're going to allow HD downloads. Especially since that directly
competes with their own Video On Demand extortion plans.

So forget about downloads. It's nonsense. Not gonna happen for
many years.