There's a huge issue with digital distribution that's been stated: Size.
I can goto the store, pick up a DVD and play it at home in 5 minutes. For a BR-DVD or HD-DVD-quality disk to download, it'd take hours upon hours of jamming up my modem to download the same movie...Home bandwidth, even at its best, isn't powerful enough to handle typical 2-3hr HD disks yet, or will in the future.
Digital distribution is GREAT - if your downloading small(er) things from 100mb-5gb or so....But many movie watchers want 1 movie a day or more...That'd tie up lines the entire day for a movie when movies are typically on-demand.
Also, to me, the next issue is the capacity of the drives..To fully use digital media (at this point in time) I'd have to buy a $300 500gb HD then spend the SAME amount of money on the download (because I dont really see any 'breaks' on savings here) vs. not buying a $300 HD and just buying the dang disks.
For games and songs, yes, great thing. Im a HUGE fan of digital distribution, but I don't see it becoming 50/50 with stored disk formats for another 10 years.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
