HD DVD Combo discs at Hollywood Video & Blockbuster??

I think it comes down to cost for them. Will the cost of the disc make enough profits to justify the needed space. For them it would be no. Even if they only had a small 4ft section. How offten would those movies be rented. If their were DVDs their they would rent them a lot more. Thus more profit. So until HDDVDs become more mainstreem I don't see HDDVDs coming to retal stores anytime soon

We're carrying them at rental.

I like your thinking in this area. Maybe we should contact the studios and HD heads to bring this to their attention as a great advertising tool as you said.

I can tell you that Hollywood in particular has just started using "insurance" to prepare to introduce the much more fragile high def formats. That said, people are incredibly stupid and hard on rentals, so I don't know how much I would trust them, especially since they are known to re-rent and sell items returned as damaged. It might be better at this time to have these as purchase only and at more early adopter friendly places like netflix.

wow all over dvd rentals i use to rent movie all the time until i rented one movie like 5 yrs ago and since then i buy the movies now renting it skips in the dvd player or its cracked and the people there don't look at them disc so now i just buy it i have over 400 sd and 16 hd dvds 78 laserdisc and 100 recorded and burned i got more movies then blockbuster store has in my town so i quit renting movies long ago due to that crap skips disc won't play bull its cheaper to buy the movie for me its better cause i got 5 night to watch them and collect dvds anyway and after what i read onthe internet the video store is go to fad in the coming yrs blockbuster is loseing money over netflicks and hollywood is losesing money..from what i read and the motion picture companys are going downloading movies that hurts the stores and now more people would just buy the movie then rent the theaters are empty went to the show sunday and nobody was in the theater but me and my wife that sucks nobody at the movies the theaters here in my area are not full the last time i was in a packed theater was for lord of the ring fellowship of the ring after that nobody gose to the show i'm kinda embarressd we the only ones here where is everone and i go every sunday sometime we go in the afternoon and still 3 people in here so i don't know about the movie industry it will be changeing soon even with all the dvds and hd blue ray were going to wake up and go to the store to get a movie and there won't be no more movies to buy have to download them instead buying the disc due to illegal copys been made no more discounted it be like the end of dvds and hd blue ray etc...........................i hope this dose'nt happen

I don't think you'll see a large amount of combo discs for HD-DVD in the near future, for Blockbuster anyways. The distribution channels we go through charge an arm and a leg for those combo discs (at least double the cost of a regular DVD). It isn't worth the added cost, at least for now.