I think if I take my household as an example. We rarely hire films in the traditional manor i.e. Blockbusters but we do suck them down the pipes and we are doing this increasingly and often we can end up sucking the same movie/film down more than once.
If we want the movie/film because we know we are going to watch it repeated times we buy it. However we are unlikely to want to buy it in high def mainly because the upscaling on the DVD is already pretty impressive and HD discs would require equipment and the discs are more exspensive.
If HD discs were the same price as the standard discs then I think that would be different but the movie houses are seeing HD as a cash cow to replace lost revenue from the humble DVD so I do not see this happening. In addition it was the DRM riddled version that looks to have taken the crown and that surely was not the consumers choice.
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I think if I take my household as an example. We rarely hire films in the traditional manor i.e. Blockbusters but we do suck them down the pipes and we are doing this increasingly and often we can end up sucking the same movie/film down more than once.
If we want the movie/film because we know we are going to watch it repeated times we buy it. However we are unlikely to want to buy it in high def mainly because the upscaling on the DVD is already pretty impressive and HD discs would require equipment and the discs are more exspensive.
If HD discs were the same price as the standard discs then I think that would be different but the movie houses are seeing HD as a cash cow to replace lost revenue from the humble DVD so I do not see this happening. In addition it was the DRM riddled version that looks to have taken the crown and that surely was not the consumers choice.