Blu Tide Continues to Turn: Porn Studios Ready to Abandon HD-DVD?

[JSE]

the local blockbuster used to be packed on tuesday, and if you didnt get there early you wouldnt get the latest release.
Now, with hq VOD and services like netflix the local videostores are becoming ghost
towns of a sort.
I went to rent the latest bourne movie on release day, got there in the afternoon,
they had plenty of copies, this used to NEVER happen.
My comunity is diverse in types of peoples and cultures, it has always gotten things first,
to guage the market.
If Comcast is doing a marketing experiment with their state of the art fiber optic system they have a success

As stated before, I do think Downloads will be the future.

But.............................

Download and VOD are not the reason Blockbuster is not as busy these days. Competition like Netflix, McDonald's Red Box and the other bazillion DVD Rental vending machines in just about every Grocery Store around are a bigger reason. DVD sales are also a big reason. Many more people are just buying DVDs now instead of renting them. Also BB has online rental now. BB also has done away with "no-late fees" in most areas. No more poeple holding onto new releases for 7 days at a time. I notice in my local BB no late fees really cause a depletion in inventory levels at any given time. These things are the reason the BB stores are not as busy, not downloads.......Yet.

[GMichael]

As stated before, I do think Downloads will be the future.

But.............................

Download and VOD are not the reason Blockbuster is not as busy these days. Competition like Netflix, McDonald's Red Box and the other bazillion DVD Rental vending machines in just about every Grocery Store around are a bigger reason. DVD sales are also a big reason. Many more people of just buying DVDs now instead of renting them. Also BB has online rental now. BB also has done away with "no-late fees" in most areas. No more poeple holding onto new releases for 7 days at a time. I notice in my local BB no late fees really cause a depletion in inventory levels at any given time. These things are the reason the BB stores are not as busy, not downloads.......Yet.

Not to mention that Blockbuster also does business by mail like Netflix now.