TomT223-
I agree. The HD PPVs are too expensive. I don't have any idea what the business model is like for, say, royalties per view, but if they made it more like I tunes pricing, on music, say $.99 a view with the capability of DVR storage for say 5 days, they would have my money over BlockBuster rentals. The reason is that while I have movie pass I still have to drive to the store to exchange my 2 - out for new ones. At .99 ea with a 5 day storage, I could see HD PPV as being competitive.
As for the poll, I'm not surprised at the results except for the few who did buy more than 3 per month. I would be interested in hearing their story as to why. It may be they live in a location that makes it difficult to get to a rental store or doesn't understand Netflix. I hope DishNetwork sees this poll and compares with their revenue stream. Personally, I like the idea of a variety of HD PPV their channels offer but would rather prefer using the bandwidth for channels they do not carry such as Smithsonian HD, SciFi HD etc.