I once did a nice rant about Blu-ray.
Why are they bad?
Interactive Java stuff... I want to see the damn movie, nothing more!
"Extras" Yeah, give me the trailer of the movie I just watched in polish! Talking about wasting size...
Region locks! Can't believe they are still doing this...
But to add to the region crap, several versions for one movie exist in one region. Why not make one "EU" disc with all languages? No, because they want you to spend more money, if you are German, of course. You find the same movie in France for less money but it only has French, Spanish and English language and subtitle.
Really, Blu-Ray is so bad, in my opinion... Yes, picture quality is unrivaled currently, but this is just a matter of time.

A movie was never digital either... Surely blu-ray is easier on the eyes than dvd or streaming as it comes closest to the original imagery. Plus blu-ray player + disk is not more difficult than checking multiple streaming services for availability.

Where are the places you can go to to pick up digital data? Why are they still not here. I think they tried with music, why not with movies?

Copying a digital movie from a friend is not legal, borrowing a disk is however. A house fire resulting in complete loss would be a problem. So would getting your account hacked, or identity stolen for digital media. You can prevent either.

As for the cinema, I wanted to watch The wind rises in the cinema. Sorry not available in your area. As with many movies I like to watch. I'm not interested in the latest 3D popcorn flick. However finally being abale to watch my favorite movies as they were intented to be seen and heard is awesome.
Oh and the picture quality in my local cinema is worse than at home, crap 2K projector with terrible black level and visble pixel structure.

Btw what do you mean by given no data caps in Canada? I'm in Ontario with a 80GB data cap.

Not redownload from the web, from the pc. It feels like downloading lol. Shitty usb.

I backed up up all my save files, the ones that were allowed to be copied. I didn't bother with an external HDD to make full system backups of a frigging console. Do you honestly do that every week or month? I have an external mirror drive for my pc, good enough I hope. I keep the important stuff (pictures, home videos) on SSD cards in a fire proof box and on a laptop for easy carry out. Yet how long do ssd cards last :/

Yeah the DRM is a real buzz kill, it got to the point where having to deal with HDCP, Cineva and all that other crap resulted in me eventually throwing the Blu-ray player into the bin, didn't help I couldn't play newer Blu-ray titles as there were no firmware updates for my player that supported the newer DRM schemes.

So... I built a HTPC, use AnyDVD HD to circumvent the never-ending advertising, DRM and other garbage and it's been completely trouble free, drop the disc in, movie starts playing instantly.
And thanks to the Graphics processor, it improves the image quality too.

Ultimatly, I would love to see someone do what iTunes did for music and Steam did for gaming but for movies instead, even if the download is 50Gb per movie, it would be worth it.

no I think most people can tell the difference on a home theatre, the issue is people are watching movies on laptops and tablets which you comment it true, its hard to tell a difference.

I like physical media because I am not reliant on my internet connection.

I own ONE Blu-Ray.

And absolutely no devices that play it.

I only own it because it was sold with a DVD-version of the same film inside the box for free, and the whole thing was only $4 more than had I gotten the DVD alone.

I think this may have been a factor, "BluRay" was a poorly thought out name, if Sony expected it to be adopted as "the new DVD".
Funnily, Toshiba's HD-DVD may have been better in that department, had all it's stars aligned to win the format war instead of BR.
BluRay always came off as some wonky Sony marketting ploy that is almost embarassing to refer to by name.

Uh... Congrats on reading comprehensin failure. 
The post you are complaining about were in fact just making a realistic assessment of mass market tastes,
and the author most certainly would themselves complain about said masses' low standards,
although with some level of maturity they may have already come to terms with that being how reality works.
Indeed MS is aware of the same thing, which is why they acknowledged (obliquely) short comings of XBone architecture (/DRM),
but stated they felt the mass market didn't care about details like that, and were happy to lap up whatever they are served.

- HD streaming > upscaled DVD in most quality comparisons.  They're not really equivalent, so you can't conclude DVD is preferable and acceptable by HD streaming success.

- Blu-ray is still growing not dying, so I think killing is a bit strong.  I'd say both Blu-ray and HD streaming are becoming more mainstream.

Audio on Netflix is god freaking awful. Amazon audio is better. I even saw that vhs Dolby is decent though. DVD is low resolution but has good audio. Bluray is superb.

As more people drop old crap TVs, bluray will continue to slowly grow. I also expect new releases to get more affordable. I think $12.99 to $16.99 will become the standard.