High Def Digest posted a great overview of different streaming video options currently available. As I've posted before, none of these options present the full range of programming choices, so consumers that want to get everything -- from all studios, and more recent releases to go with catalog titles -- will need to subscribe to more than one service.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...the_Union/7126

More importantly, the article mentions the picture quality, a subject that most of the tech press avoids since that would require acknowledging the superiority of Blu-ray (or you get lying idiots like Don Reisinger who's written that there's little difference between upconverted DVDs and Blu-ray).

Basically, the article states up front that Blu-ray is the current state-of-the-art when it comes to picture quality. Among the streaming options that the author looked at, Vudu has the best picture quality.

Lot of good information that goes over the pluses and minuses of each option. But, as with all things in the cloud, this is all subject to change -- as evidenced by the thousands of titles from Sony Pictures that disappeared in an instant because of a rights fee dispute between Netflix and its content provider.