Well, I myself have a file server at home, but how would it work not having any physical media for my movies?
- Portability. What happens if I want to bring a movie at my gf's, or lend one to a friend? With BR I pick the discs up and place them in my bag. With digital only I suppose I would have to fight the DRM monster to somehow copy them and then play them somewhere else. Then there's the issue of format, because I have to be sure that wherever I bring them there's the right software and codecs...
- Durability. The bigger the storage size the more likely hardware failures become with the HDDs. We'll have to start worrying about RAID arrays into our file servers, about filesystem corruptions if there's a power shortage, about backups etc. My collection of CDs, DVDs and BRs will only succumb in case of a house fire.
I have had to deal with backup systems and databases at enterprise level for a while, where data availability end durability are important issues, and frankly I don't look forward to the idea of having to deal with them for my movie collection in my free time.
A combination of durable discs and digital "ripped" format for easy local sharing among all devices in my home looks like the only hassle-free way for the foreseeable future.
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