Sony's in a 'bag of hurt' because of Blu-ray

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disolitude said:

DialgaMarine said:
Yeah, there's all this all this hooting and cheering for physical media to go away until people finally realize that they can no longer access content that they paid money for because it's no longer available digitally.

Yeah people can be really ignorant sometimes.

Not only do some people not know that they can back up digital media on local or cloud storage, but they also never clued in that Bluray disks make awesome coasters once you rip them to digital format yourself. 

^^This (and ^This)

Also, consider the combination (in the US anyway) of physical media going away just when the FCC decides to f*** over consumers with their pro-business (i.e. pro-greed) Net Neutrality b.s.  How wonderful for Comcast, Verizon, etc when consumers will have to pay extra for the privledge of streaming high-def content.