Blu-Ray/Hd Dvd does either really matter?

It would seem that lately Blu-Ray has began to pull away from it’s competitor HD-DVD with the announcement that blockbuster will be sticking with just blu-ray disc and replacing their entire line of HD-DVD with Blu-Ray disc. Both formats are about the same really as far as quality and storage capability, the only real difference is that one group of movie studios and hardware manufacturers support blu-ray and the other group support HD-DVD. The problem with blu-ray and HD-DVD is that the consumer will be the one to lose out if they pick the wrong format, which has already happened sometime ago with VHS and Betamax. While one of the formats will win (and it seems to be blu-ray) I think that people are starting to warm up to the idea of digital content, bypassing a physical media all together. With bandwidth becoming readily available and products like the appletv and netgear eva8000 starting to gain momentum I really believe that physical media such as DVD’s no matter what format will be a thing of the past in the very near future. Digital Media receivers have been around for a few years but have never really caught on until now because most of them were very unstable and had really poor codec support, but those issues seem to have been resolved recently with the latest crop of receivers. The online music business has become very popular in recent years thanks in part to itunes and record studios seeing the potential and growing market of online distribution, I think that now is the time for the movie industry to really embrace online distribution of movies, because then the consumer wins and also has more choices.