Physical media till they take it away from me :)

In NZ blu ray are normally very cheap. New movies sure are expensive at start but they go on sale quite quickly. In nz,, you can get blu ray for 10 bucks or buy 1 free 1 or buy 2 get one free. Always sale for BD. Most of the tiem BD in nz are cheaper then dvds lol.

I guess I am part of the problem?

Both my PS4 and X1 have never seen a disc in any shape or form. Digital all the way.

Even that's inconsistent. Some LCD TVs have lower input lag in other TV modes than game mode. For the last month and a half, I've been researching TVs to see which one I'd purchase and some reviews (avsforum, cnet, PCMag, etc.) reported that game mode for certain TVs performed worse than say, standard mode, sports mode, or even vivid mode in terms of input lag. It was quite maddening actually.

It's the same in Canada, most blu-ray at release are between $20 - $25, only Disney asks $30 - $32 for theirs. Then they go down to around $15 couple months later. Some go up, some drop to $10 or even $5. And that's just Amazon.ca. Retail has plenty shelves with $7.99 blu-rays or 2 for $10. Free delivery and pre-order price guarantee make Amazon a very convenient option for me.

In contrast Digital purchases stay high longer, but are more even accross the board. iTunes new releases $24.99 (4GB - 5GB download), sames as XBox video and PSN. Blu-ray is already cheaper at release except for Disney stuff and Criterion collection. There are exceptions, American hustle is currently $14.99 on iTunes (4.65GB), went up on blu-ray after release to $27, and is still $24.99 on PSN (6.4GB) and XBox video (? GB). Digital comes out earlier now, movie companies like the extra revenue from people that can't wait. Her has been available for a few weeks already, blu-ray comes out on the 13th.

I'll gladly wait and spend a couple dollars more now and then (usually less) for better sound and picture quality, extras and having something real. Plus you can always check exactly what you get before purchasing, either on the box or simply check blu-ray.com. With digital you just get a running time, some don't even list the download size (Xbox video). Some list 5.1 sound, yet not what kind, no extras, no info about subtitle options. And you end up with movies on different services. Plus older movies and less mainstream movies are hard to come by.

Kind of, but Sony can do just as well by a digital download/stream era, as they own major movie/TV/music studios.
They are better off owning BR and getting royalties from it, than paying Toshiba royaties.
As posted here, there is likely to be a future physical standard,
with networks unlikely to make 4k downloads/streams a near term reaity esp. globally,
and Sony will be participating (and likely making said players backwards compatable with BR).

It is hardly clear that abandoning Blu-Ray to allow Toshiba to win would have been better for Sony (or HD movies) in the end.

The actual trajectory of cost/price decreases (and lesser adoption rate) is not an inherent result of the format switch,
problems with blue laser supply were not really a huge technogical problem, but just a market supply inefficiency,
the result in pricing was mostly a profit-taking response by a consumer electronics industry with over-all profitability problems,
when Chinese (and Korean) brands were starting to eat established OEMs alive, also getting BR royalties was a plus for Sony.

Blu-Ray's larger capacity was and is also crucial to console gaming which is central to Sony's interests.
(both in total size, and it's higher speed can better augment read bandwith even for HD installed games)

That's the price paid for the era of "instant gratification". Physical media, brick and mortar shops, all dying out to digital content. In the time it takes me to write this post, I can go onto Steam, purchase and download a new videogame. I can do the same with movies and streaming shows via Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, Apple TV, etc. I don't have to move anything more than my hands to get it. I don't have to drive to the store, I can buy at 3 AM if I like, and so on.

I called Blu Ray/HD-DVD a bad idea from the getgo. This will be the shortest lived reign of a kind of physical media. Maybe we should just label it "Sony's Folly". Shareholder's are going to have someone's head for only generating 1/3rd of the expected profit.

I'm pretty sure Sony and Toshiba don't have the same corporate leadership as when HD formats were released.

I'm 100% with you on this. I've got around 700 DVDs, and around 40 Blu-ray Discs. Once I got over the "oh it looks so good" stage, I couldn't bring myself to pay 50% more for the same shit. And on too of that, after having piled up so many DVDs, I really don't want to have a second huge collection on a seperate format, that costs a hell of a lot more. DVD didn't last long enough, even tho it's still available and sold, so why would anyone want to invest money in a collection that going to be replaced by the next- next thing, for even more money... I'm perfectly happy downloading movies now, thank you very much. Keep your blu ray, red ray, and whatever the hell ray you want to come up with.