True, but that's not what I said. I don't care what they were, I care what they are, and the price-per-GB on Blu-Ray media is ridiculous when compared to DVDs or even hard drives. I know the price will come down, as it did with CDs and DVDs before, but it's going to take a while, IMO.

You're correct that the quality on the discs is as good as you can get, and downloads are still not up to snuff. That's not what I was saying, though. It just seems to me that by the time digital downloads become the new medium, Blu-Ray won't have had nearly the run that DVD did. If you look at how well Apple and Netflix (and even Amazon) are doing it now, even with their drawbacks, it just looks more like a cloud over the future of physical media to me than a current competitor.

And why would you do that anyway? If you don't have an HDTV you can go out and get a DVD player for about $25.