I wouldn't know. I've barely used it.

I tried to download Borderlands once and it said it was going to take 10 hours.

That's the very opposite of convenience to me.

Digital content is more convenient. I don't like swapping discs. I don't like having to get off the couch. With that said, there are laws both in the US & EU that define consumer rights over the purchase & use of intellectual property.

When you buy a copyrighted product, you have the right to use it, give it or sell it to another person. You do not have the right to reproduce it. The European Court of Justice ruled on July 2012, that these simple rules should apply for digital content, just as they do for physical content.

What this means, is that companies like Steam or Microsoft that prohibit you from selling your software licenses or try to take a cut, are currently breaking the law(in the EU at least). If the honorable judges have it their way, consumers should be able to sell digital content they own, as long as it permanently leaves their hard drives.

I like Physical Copies.. but then I am a collector as well as a Gamer.. I don't mind Digital if that is the only way I can get the game.. but I think if you charge as much for digital as you do physical.. than you can go uhm... take a flight.. (Be nice be nice be nice) Because that was one of the reasons to go digital to begin with.. things were supposed to be cheaper.. on both ends.. not only on one..

Only for a small population.

For example. I had to re-download the map packs for Battlefield 3 the other week.

With my connection it took just over 15 hours and I couldn't use the internet in that time.

How is that convenient?

If you have a 50mbps connection or better, it is convenient.

The collector in me likes physical media. There's something fun about getting a new game and opening it for the first time. I like looking at box art too. Showing off my collection when friends come over, ease of loaning, and...

...new game smell.

FWIW, physical goods have an environmental footprint from production and distribution, and when you scale it out to the amount of video games, movies and books that are out there we're talking a serious amount.

I prefer a physical due collection.

I love that.

Not true.

You have the same rights with digital content as you do with content on physical media.  Both US and EU courts have sided with consumers in this regards.

The only time you do not have rights to the content is if you are clearly in a rental/let/lend/lease situation.  If you're buying content, regardless of whether you're buying a license to it or the physical media, you have the same rights.  Which is why Microsoft has approached digital content the way it has with the Xbox One.  All these rulings regarding licenses and digital content have come in the past 5 years or so. 

US courts have made two rulings, one regarding the right to resell licenses and to be able to determine the cost of that license upon resale, the second I can't remember but it affirmed the rights of the consumer.  The EU courts recently affirmed that consumers have the right to sell digital content.  

Xbox One does the following:

• You still have the right to resell licensed content purchase via retail disc.  No current word regarding the resale of digital content, but since the ruling in Germany is recent, I can imagine Microsoft's policies haven't fell inline with the EU ruling.  Likewise, this could become a world-wide ability or it may only be regional (i.e. Europe).
• You still have the right to lend any game and DLC content to anyone on your friends list via a "Family" grouping.
• You still have the right to archive your physical media and in the case of digital content, Microsoft provides unlimited storage that is accessable to you 24/7 365, from anywhere in the world.

So the only thing Microsoft has to comment on is the ability to sell digital content purchased online.

Not everyone lives in Europe or the U.S believe it or not.