Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
My gut tells me the business model for VOD isn't as attractive as BluRay from the studio's perspective.
There studios don't make as much $$ per title sold as they would a BluRay, mostly because the cable companies have to take their pound of flesh to support the infrastructure (which aint' cheap) and pad their wallets to boot. VOD offers inferior quality at approximately equal or higher pricing to Blockbuster/rental options. The convenience factor is overrated, and not fairly priced IMO.
Bingo!

The last BR seminar I attended, they released a study that actually blew my mind. It takes more energy(about 200 times) to support downloads than it does to replicate a disc run of a major titles. It seems the servers, server maintaince, air conditioners, repair, storage costs are not only energy hogs, but financial hogs as well.