[belcherboy]

Try downloading a HD trailer on your computer. I believe all the new movie trailers are available in HD. Although it is compressed to a smaller window (I think you can get full screen now though) on your screen, it doesn't take me much more than a minute to download a 2 minute trailer.

IMO, I think I could download a full 1080p movie in about 60-90 minutes. I don't believe that is too long. I remember when downloading songs took 30 minutes. Now you can download a song in 30 seconds (or less).

The movie/motion picture industry is not going to blow it like the recording industry did. They will not wait too long and allow piracy to become as big an issue as it is with music. I believe they will allow people to get the media in several different ways, instead of fighting it. Comcast already has HD movies on demand (although they are $2 more than the standard definition movies)

The internet is the future for everything regarding media IMO. That is why I believe this DVD format war, is going to end with both losing.

[El Scorcho]

Apple announced HD movie rentals today via iTunes and their revamped Apple TV device. I think it's safe to say that it's game on for HD downloads.

http://www.flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=146285

[LUconn]

I hate to always be bringing this ups but I feel like I'm stuck in the stone age. Why does broadband coverage, (and really anything cool like that I guess) have such a poor trickledown effect to the Lynchburg area. I mean, Lynchburg could get something FiOS-like in 2020 which is bad enough, and I will probably get it 15 years after.

[El Scorcho]

I hate to always be bringing this ups but I feel like I'm stuck in the stone age. Why does broadband coverage, (and really anything cool like that I guess) have such a poor trickledown effect to the Lynchburg area. I mean, Lynchburg could get something FiOS-like in 2020 which is bad enough, and I will probably get it 15 years after.

No demand for it. The people who want it are, unfortunately, few and far between around here. LU has driven some of it (like Alltel's EVDO coverage), but so far the people who could make it happen don't seem to think it's worth the investment in the market. Guess we're still just too small town. I dunno. Just my guesses. I wish it would get fixed, though.

[LUconn]

as long as we're talking about renting movies (somehwhat), as anybody seen that Redbox in the entryway at walmart? It's a vending machine that you can rent movies for $1 and they're pretty new movies. And it's a pretty big inventory for it being a vending machine. Probably like 50+ movies. You have to have it back by 9pm or it's another dollar. Pretty good deal, in my opinion.

[Ed Dantes]

Hitler comes to grips with the downfall of HD-DVD...

(warning: contains adult language in subtitles).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=friS4OOcdgQ

[kevinrmcguire]

Do they have blu-ray recordable discs yet? They probably cost like 10-15 dollars each!

Yes, they are available and I forget how much they cost exactly, but I don't think you wre very far off. Staples carried them when they first came out and now only Blu Ray are available online (http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/store ... +%26+Media)