Has anybody gone completely digital yet?

Has anyone abandoned disc based movies and gone to digital distribution yet? I've been browsing the Zune Marketplace and between that and Netflix it looks as though I won't need to buy Blu Rays or DVDs anymore. Aside from the obvious if the service goes down you lose you're content debate, is there any other disadvantages to this? Are 1080p zune marketplace movies the same quality as a BD? Is there support for 3D movies on these on demand services?

The only thing holding me back is not having a infinite storage solution for the 360. I know this is less of a problem with the PS3 since it can use pretty much any laptop HDD (I know the old model can not sure about the slim). Also foreign films, at least with Netflix, don't have the option for the original language/subtitles. You're pretty much stuck with the dub of the film, not too big an issue, but I like to watch a Japanese movie in Japanese, or a German film in German, the way they were intended.

Other than that, it looks like the digital distribution availiable on consoles may mean I can spend less money on movies now. I know Netflix is saving me a lot currently, but I have yet to buy another Blu Ray player to replace my PS3 I sold back in January, so I'm stuck with DVD movies.

All DD on PC unless it's a special edition game for a series I like.

I have.

I have a Home Theater PC, and all my music and movies are digital. Can access them anywhere I am (as long as there's an internet connection), and don't have a ton of boxes collecting dust in my home.

Thanks to the PC (and steam, gog, impulse, d2d, blizzard, etc) my gaming has also gone totally digital distribution. Haven't bought a physical copy of anything in years.

I can come home from work, wiggle my mouse and play any of my 50+ games currently installed on my PC without bothering with discs.

Not I, I refuse to be completely digital. I'd much rather own the game physically. Netflix would be my one and only service that I use digitally.

I haven't. If I am buying a new game at launch, it's physical. For older games on sale at a digital outlet, I'll go digital, but I am still very much into physical media because of the possibility of resale. For books and movies... yeah, still physical here.

I purchase Digital downloads for PC games only. But for everything I prefer Physical copies of the games, movies, music, and books.

Forgot about books too!

Yep ditched those as well.

So friggin liberating!

I can't understand people who still like those dust magnets, the plastic, the useless stuff. Specially when the convinience of having all your entertinament at your finger tips, wherever is just so cool.

Forgot about books too!

Yep ditched those as well.

So friggin liberating!

I can't understand people who still like those dust magnets, the plastic, the useless stuff. Specially when the convinience of having all your entertinament at your finger tips, wherever is just so cool.

Kinthalis

I buy mostly physical since when they shutdown steam and my hard drive breaks i can't play my games anymore :(

Im not a fan of it really but i've used it, its just not got the same feeling either.Cant beat getting a new game or album and it having that NEW smell xD.

trust me having a signed album from a band you love >>> random pieces of data.

The idea of digital doesnt strike or stick with me, what if the company that provides you with the data goes defunct and various other things.I love having my cd's but some albums i have bought digitally recently but bout every one of my really favourite bands' the cd is a necessity.

Theres a lot of things with albums aswell, the liner notes are amazing in a lot of bands albums personal fav's are cancer bats' birthing the giant some really amazing artwork in there.

I might be in a minority but i love my physical copies, actually just ordered Black dahlia Murder-Ritual and SYG-Burning at both ends from amazon hopefully should be here when i get home from work :P

I personally don't like the clutter of a bunch of game cases and cd and movie cases. I have been trying to convert my DVDs to BD, but it's becoming expensive, but I like the smaller design of the BD cases plus the improvements. Looking at the Zune Marketplace on my 360 today, I noticed that the 1080p versions of movies are going for 480 MS points, which I'm guessing is like 6 or7 dollars. Which isn't bad if the quality is as good as a BD. I don't really care about extra features and things like that. Mainly all I want out of a digital movie is the ability for it to look exactly as BD quality and sound like BD quality as well as have multi language options and subtitle options for foreign films. I'm hoping the next gen systems can bring really really big HDDs with them and that games can move towards DD as well so I don't have to buy the games and pay for the cases and two page manuals lol.

After reading some stuff online, it seems that the 1080p downloads are not the same quality as BD, its not really noticeable unless you really know what to look for when comparing audio and video. Also the prices I mentioned seem to be for renting the movies only. Looks like it's still BD for me for now.

Maybe about half of my pc and 360 game purchases have been digital. I have no problem getting a game digitally if that is the only way it is offered, or as long as the price is right (cheaper than a hard copy).

I personally don't like the clutter of a bunch of game cases and cd and movie cases. I have been trying to convert my DVDs to BD, but it's becoming expensive, but I like the smaller design of the BD cases plus the improvements. Looking at the Zune Marketplace on my 360 today, I noticed that the 1080p versions of movies are going for 480 MS points, which I'm guessing is like 6 or7 dollars. Which isn't bad if the quality is as good as a BD. I don't really care about extra features and things like that. Mainly all I want out of a digital movie is the ability for it to look exactly as BD quality and sound like BD quality as well as have multi language options and subtitle options for foreign films. I'm hoping the next gen systems can bring really really big HDDs with them and that games can move towards DD as well so I don't have to buy the games and pay for the cases and two page manuals lol.

After reading some stuff online, it seems that the 1080p downloads are not the same quality as BD, its not really noticeable unless you really know what to look for when comparing audio and video. Also the prices I mentioned seem to be for renting the movies only. Looks like it's still BD for me for now.

FPSDad1161

Unless the download is around 10 GB Gigabytes, it won't be as good as a blu-ray disc.

I ended up ripping my movies to my HD and storign my discs in a disc folder, out of sight.

its which ever is cheaper for me. i really don't care either way. its the content i want not another DVD case.

i don't get this love of DVD cases that people seem to have.

For my movies, music and PC games it is all digital now and I probably haven't bought those physically in 5+ years now. The small amount of console games I do buy of course its physical since I don't actively play on them much so its pointless to me to signup for their digital market places and add money to the service I'm hardly going to use.

I stream everything to my devices so I don't even buy set tops anymore except the device I need to stream from my server.

The only way I'll go completely digital is if all the games I want in the future have download option then again I might ditch it for things like special retails Chubbyguy reminded me of like Witcher 2 collectors edition

Last game I bought physical was Starcraft 2 because it was said that the digital version would have been unlocked 10 hours past release.

Uhm, before that it was Hellgate: London, back in 2007.

So yes, I guess we could say that.

I refuse to go completely digital. There's something about opening that case for the first time...mrmusicman247

The smell of a freshly opening video game and paging through the manual and then putting the game disc in the console with excitement is why physicl copies are still awesome :] Plus I like the added benifit of being able to to not have to worry about redownloading all my stuff in my console breaks, and being able to lend games to my friends, or trade them in. I also enjoy the boxart of a physical copy compared to the small digital representation of it.

If I can help it sure. My problem with going completely digital is I can get boxed copies really cheap off Amazon. Aside from like once a year when I buy something off Amazon it is all digital. The way I see it those games backed up take a whole lot less space then the book case full of old game CDs.

The only way I'll go completely digital is if all the games I want in the future have download option then again I might ditch it for things like special retails Chubbyguy reminded me of like Witcher 2 collectors edition

NoodleFighter

Retail > Digital pretty much 50% of the time.

The other 50% is digital's super-awesome sales and free games.

Streaming only netflix for months now.

I am happy with it and it's all I use.

Only movie I really want to see is Battle LA, I might subscribe to their disk service to rent that.

As far as games, no.

I want the physical copy.

I don't know if your servers will be up tommorrow, I need a physical copy of the game to play it whenever I please, even 10 years from now.

I still play Starcraft 1 on PC.

Some of the games I play are still retail. Sure, Steam is nice and all, but it isn't the only way to buy PC games.

So far, I only bought 2 things Digitally, Dead Rising & Condemned on Xbox 360 (Games on Demand). I gotta say, I like the whole concept, but I much prefer Physical copies. For Music, definitely Physical (CD's)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Digital.

Well,not really,but in some areas is getting there. My music library is now completely digital,I haven´t bought a single record at least for three years. And as far as movies and shows,it´s very close to be fully digital.

As for games,it´s going there eventually,as of now,it´s both.

I have no interest in digital books at all though.

I don't think I've bought a disc-based game since GT5 probably. I'm pretty much digital only now, apart from some console exclusives.

Forgot about books too!

Yep ditched those as well.

So friggin liberating!

I can't understand people who still like those dust magnets, the plastic, the useless stuff. Specially when the convinience of having all your entertinament at your finger tips, wherever is just so cool.

Kinthalis

You read books on your computer? That sucks. Books > E books.

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Forgot about books too!

Yep ditched those as well.

So friggin liberating!

I can't understand people who still like those dust magnets, the plastic, the useless stuff. Specially when the convinience of having all your entertinament at your finger tips, wherever is just so cool.

deathtarget04

You read books on your computer? That sucks. Books > E books.

Kindles are awesome, much easier to carrying around and they contain your entire library.

well lets just say im 'borrowing' my neighbours connection atm... i will NEVER go DD only.. UNLESS retail DIES completely

ill never buy digital console games sorry 59.99 and i dont get a manual or i dont have right to sell back ,, no thanks

also i only buy rugrats off zune thats it

I dont have a fast enought internet connection for going all digital when it comes to video games

Almost all of my games on pc are digital now. I don't really watch many movies, but when I buy them I usually get them on dvd.