SlorgNet on 05 January 2008
Downloads can't and won't replace BluRay, not for another seven or eight years, i.e. for the foreseeable life of the PS3. Moving gigabytes of data through a network is an enormous challenge - there is no mass market of ultra-high-broadband connections capable of piping that data. Burning a BluRay disc will be cheaper than buying stacks and stacks of hard-drives, so there's a place for disc media.
This isn't to say downloads aren't an important market, just that disc media (for large files) and downloads (for smaller ones) will coexist just fine.
