<strong>I would rather wait on quality than have an instant "piece of crap."</strong> Boy, that is a bold statement, so made it <strong>boldface</strong>.

I rarely buy music from iTunes, except in the case of needing individual songs or for buying 'a la carte.'   I sometimes rent movies from iTunes when it's a movie that I don't know if I will like it, but certainly not for the quality.  It is convenient for TV shows that I may have missed and won't necessarily be connected to the internet when I am ready to watch.  This is where sites like Hulu fail.  I can't take Hulu shows with me (legally), so I buy from iTunes.

For movies that I want to own, it's Blu-ray.  I barely watch anything that is standard-definition.  That includes off of my satellite dish.  I look though the HD channels first and then the standard channels when browsing what's on.  Oh, and Blu-ray is gorgeous.  Even better than satellite delivered HD.  Looks better and sounds better.  Digital downloads cannot match the bit-rate that only Blu-ray can deliver.  I don't want something that is "good enough" but something "exceptional."

For music, can't buy digital downloads that include a printable cd-booklet nor the same sound quality of a CD.  Most are mid-quality MP3.  Maybe if we could be the CD tracks as they are on the CD's and can make a real CD and get the booklets and covers, so I could re-create the CD with a little computer time... or else, I could just hop down to Best Buy or onto Amazon.com and purchase the original CD.

In addition to not wanting crappy digital downloads or digital downloads that are missing part of the entire experience... physical media are the ultimate back-up copies.  No matter if all of my hard-drives fail, I still have every bit of my music and movies... So, there is a bit of security in purchasing physical media.

So, there they are... my arguments.  Maybe somebody said the same thing about Polaroid instant cameras... they would rather wait for a quality print than an inferior instant picture...  until we got to digital cameras that are of equal quality of their