Any of you get an email today saying that Netflix is raising the prices on Blu-rentals $1 a month. Not a huge deal, but it pisses me off that their reasoning is "As you may know, Blu-ray movies are more expensive than standard definition movies."

 

DVD's are going to be a thing of the past down the road. Ill wait for blue ray to drop down alot in price.

 

I just don't understand the price hike--they have charged the same price until now, and Blu-rays are already dropping in price.

 

soon it will all be on harddrives or on demand.

 

They spend all that money and resource on blue ray knowing damn well it's obsolete. Hard-drive and On demand will be the thing of the future.

 

I don't see what the big deal is. It's $1/month. Blu-rays I see at the store are usually about $10 more than a DVD. It only makes sense they would try to recoup some of this cost from the people that actually rent blu-ray discs.

I'm sure downloads will eventually replace blu-ray, but they have a long ways to go to even get close to the quality of BR. The crappy, super-compressed 720P downloads with plain dolby digital sound aren't even close to blu-ray quality for the real enthusiasts.

 

Its not the dollar that I'm worried about--just worried that they will raise prices further if people don't have a problem with a dollar charge. Besides, only a small percentage of their library is blu-ray.

 

We won't see equal quality (to blu ray) on-demand or downloadable movies of any type for a long time.. BD movies are 20+GB with a single audio track and no menus or extras..

 

I think you mean BR but yeah. I'm still wondering how much bandwidth my cable connection actually has because I can load up with countless SD cable boxes, and a few HD boxes in one location and the on-demand is rumored to work just find still.

Why couldn't they start zooming a 20GB movie through to my TV? All they would have to do is have 2 minutes of some video for startup to buffer enough that I can watch my movie without fear of choppiness. Then play away!

 

My sattelite service has a few 1080p dowloadables now.

Some people like the special features and extras, except for one or two blooper reels, I have never wathced any special features.

But I am looking forward to late fall when Netflicks goes on Xbox live. Download brand new movies, many in HD right through the Xbox. No waiting.

I have downloaded a few movies from Xbox live in the past and after a little buffering it works great but the choices are slim. The full Netflicks library would be awesome.