KungKras said: No, physical media will never die, becasue people prefer owning them and having control over the products they buy. |
You can have both. I buy a lot of Blu-ray discs but then I rip them and store them on my media server because I love having everything within a few clicks.
Using Media Browser and Windows 7 Media Center I have my entire collection stored on a few 2TB drives and can access everything within seconds by just flipping through the covers. I can also browse by title, actor, genre, year etc.
Give me a download option where I have the actual file on my drive and you can completely get rid of the discs as far as I'm concerned. This is the case right now with mp3s and I see movies going the same way.