[kdw]

Blu-Ray is a transition format anyway. Long-term, my money is on network-based digital distribution.

It sucks... but for a couple hundred bucks, I'm fine with my blu-ray player, my netflix subscription, and my purchased copy of Planet Earth.

[billybob]

Agreed. We've got this great, robust network for shuttling data around the world and keeping redundant distributed copies, yet we buy spoonfuls of information on breakable discs with restrictions on how we can use them.

<sarcasm>I wonder if that will last?</sarcasm>

[pyre]

If all you want is HiDef Planet Earth... it was released on HDDVD. You could probably get a copy and a player for cheap.

[kdw]

I actually had one. I switched to blu-ray because of netflix.

A netflix subscription and a blu-ray player is both cheaper and more interesting than subscribing to all the premium movie channels.

[pyre]

Netflix is also on the XBox360. But that might not be relevant to you (not a gamer,bluray player cheaper,etc).