# Netflix's impact on the next-gen DVD battle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-impact-on-the-next-gen-dvd-battle/365922 "2006-07-25T03:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-impact-on-the-next-gen-dvd-battle/365922/1 "2006-07-25T03:28:27Z")
I subscribe to Netflix and have recently been having an increase in the percentage of problem discs mrs.gnu and I have received from them. They handle it well from a customer service perspective, but it still has to cost money to replace these dics, seeings how as a whole we don’t treat rental dics very carefully. From that I supposed Netflix would prefer, above all else, the more durable option between the two rival High-Definition DVD formats. How much impact could this have in the current next-gen DVD battle? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-impact-on-the-next-gen-dvd-battle/365922/2 "2006-07-25T05:50:55Z")
I haven’t plunged into the various message boards debating the merits of HD-DVD and Blu-ray, so I can’t answer which, if either is more durable. If the difference is small, or if the less durable format is no worse than today’s DVD discs, then I don’t imagine it would matter that much to Netflix. It will take a long while for the HD-DVD and/or Blu-ray formats to spread as widely as DVD, and I bet large strides will be made by Netflix and their competitors toward providing high quality rentals via internet downloads.