| Grey Acumen said: Look, I'll admit, a lot of stuff may be moving towards DLC, but it will NEVER replace a permanent physical storage medium. It might beat it, but it will never REPLACE it. Thing is, people LIKE having a physical "if someone wants to take this from me they'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers" storage medium. DVD is enough for now, but eventually, I do see file sizes and quality pushing things to where we need Blu Ray for better convenience, even regardless of a "high definition" issue. Downloadable content will likely become more convenient, along with flash based storage as a rewritable medium, but there's still plenty of room for Blu Ray to carve its niche into.
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If you could eliminate DRM, or at least keep it limited enough so people can use their content in a reasonable way (Transfer movie to iPod or PSP for example), and downloadable content is inexpensive enough then the physical format can be eliminated.
As an example, the only people I know who still buy CDs are those that are afraid of getting a virus from downloads and/or those who think iTunes is a rippoff (lower quality music, no liner-notes or artwork, and it is more expensive then buying a cd in stores?).
At the right price (about the cost of a rental) I am willing to even give up on the DRM complaints...
