Showtime has begun selling episodes of Weeds online before the show's full-season DVD release, a first for the series. And Weeds isn't nearly the only one—is Hollywood finally embracing digital as the successor to DVD?

Well, sort of. This is really more of a symbolic shift than a full-scale adoption. Thing is, even as DVD sales decline and Blu-ray fails to explode, they both still dwarf revenues from digital streams—so you can't really blame the studios for moving slowly.

But pushing the digital release (and here we're talking about streaming, not iTunes-like downloads) ahead of the physical, as in Weeds ...

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