For all the people that say downloads is the future

[Stormkeep]

I'll never trust a medium that I can't see.

Yah, nor will I. But I also live in a house where I call one room a "library" and it has several thousand of my favorite books in it. I can see that once there is ease of use and instant delivery, most people will embrace the technology whether I like it or not with my old-fashioned notions. I'm just content knowing that the technology is not likely to reach a level of capability where physical media becomes a thing of the past in my lifetime.

[ben1080p]

I just dont see how downloads could work as a mass media.

[Sketcha]

Don't use Walmart as a shining example of a forward thinking tech company, they sell shoes, televisions and laundry detergent...

...and A3s and were touted as THE gateway to mass, HD DVD adoption and the death knell of blu-ray!

So... you're right. Don't use Walmart...

[steaky]

Downloads are not HD. HD is 1080p with HD audio. Downloads are no where near that.

[pcdawg]

Don't use Walmart as a shining example of a forward thinking tech company, they sell shoes, televisions and laundry detergent.

Why becuase walmart is the root of all evil?

They do have a large section to DVD movies and currently a small section of HD media that is selling.

[Blinx123]

The OP is definetly wrong in one point: I haven't seen a single HD-DVD supporter sticking to digital downloads. That's total FUD. Most of us are still sticking to HD-DVD and maybe upconvert DVD.

[BBM128]

The OP is definetly wrong in one point: I haven't seen a single HD-DVD supporter sticking to digital downloads. That's total FUD. Most of us are still sticking to HD-DVD and maybe upconvert DVD.

You need your eyes checked. So many HD DVD supporters are claiming that HDM would never have made it anyway and that downloads would always have won out. But they never said stuff like that until Warner put the nail in the coffin of HD DVD.

[Amalgamutt]

For all the Hd dvd supporters that are now saying downloads is the future and not Blu-ray.(mostly cause they are bitter) Apparently Walmart doesnt agree.
[urThe nascent market for Hollywood movie downloads from the Internet took another hit when Wal-Mart Stores Inc. confirmed it had ceased operations of its site Dec. 21.

The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail behemoth launched the service in February, offering about 3,000 movies and TV shows from 20th Century Fox Television, Warner Bros., The CW and Comedy Central, among others.

Fox apparently didn’t waste time finding an alternative distribution channel and reportedly is considering offering movie rental downloads on Apple’s iTunes Store. The service was supported by Hewlett-Packard Co., which reportedly shuttered the download-only merchant store technology due to limited demand.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the closure affected the on-demand DVD merchant service HP launched in October.

Wal-Mart said in a statement that the service was discontinued due to an internal “business decision.” The shuttering does not affect Wal-Mart’s music download service.

Earlier this year, Google Inc. shuttered its video download service and last month AOL ceased operations of a similar service. Bankrupt Movie Gallery Inc. in December halted operations of MovieBeam, a Web-based service that offered movies via a proprietary set-top box.
l]http://www.homemediamagazine.com/index.cfm?sec_id=2[/url]

Sorry but your examples are beyond horrible.
Listing Walmart, HP, a small time local outfit, and misrepresenting Google's video service being "shuttered" as some kind of VoD failure, when it had more to do with the purchase of Youtube, I mean where do I start?

The writing is on the wall and it will happen, slowly but surely. Later in this thread, and on this site in general, BD fanbois keep saying VoD vs BD is the new HD DVD fanbois argument. Regardless of that generalization I am format neutral and I've been saying this for a long time. It doesn't matter. The future will prove what I'm saying, as well as others, as fact. If you really thing we'll continue to be tied to physical formats, when history has proven all forms of media are going digital, you're the one who needs to come back to reality.

P.S. Both niche HD formats can kiss my ass

[Crackbone]

Sorry but your examples are beyond horrible.
Listing Walmart, HP, a small time local outfit, and misrepresenting Google's video service being "shuttered" as some kind of VoD failure, when it had more to do with the purchase of Youtube, I mean where do I start?

The writing is on the wall and it will happen, slowly but surely. Later in this thread, and on this site in general, BD fanbois keep saying VoD vs BD is the new HD DVD fanbois argument. Regardless of that generalization I am format neutral and I've been saying this for a long time. It doesn't matter. The future will prove what I'm saying, as well as others, as fact. If you really thing we'll continue to be tied to physical formats, when history has proven all forms of media are going digital, you're the one who needs to come back to reality.

P.S. Both niche HD formats can kiss my ass

Why are you here?

BTW, 6 Generations of Ipods and the still conspicuously available CD would prove you wrong.