I tunes is now outselling CD's, is that the future also for movies? Did PS3's on demand movies solidify it as the future? Whats to become of blue ray movies in the future if everyone with a game system or computer can just download HD movies?

What is Blue ray?

I'm not sure if digital distribution is the future just yet...but there are already many people like me that only download movies/songs and rarely rent/buy them form stores.

This means that bluray is already chasing a smaller market that DVD did backin 2001. Also, due to lack of HD televisions in 100% of homes and blurays somewhat high price point, it even has smaller potential market to conquer that DVD.

Conclusion: Physical media peaked with DVD's.

Digital distribution will break the 50% barrier before anything else does, because nothing else will.

That'll take at least 10 more years though.

DVDs will die a long slow painful death as the internet gets faster and hard drives get bigger.

 what is digiatal distribution?

the world may never know.

Blu-ray is future

Digital distribution is far future

Digital distribution sucks.

It takes along time to download a SD movie. Just think how much longer it would take to download an HD movie...
Digital distribution is in the future for HD but not for another 15 years. 10 at best.

e-books are the future....wait....

Too soon to tell.

Blu-ray is trailing heavily behind DVD during it's first few years. Still it's doing a little better the Laserdisc in the physical media market.

It's probably doing worse then Laserdisc when you take into account expanded audience of the buisness with more DVDS sold and VOD and other services... but the Industries are really behind blu-ray and putting up a lot of propoganda because they'd like to sell their movies one more time before the switch to VOD.  So it's still got a fighting chance.

You don't need broadband for VOD content... just cable.

If I had to guess... i'd expect DVD to stay ahead for a few more years... eventually with Blu-ray and VOD splitting the market for a while.

People who really care about HD and having hard copies will go with Blu-ray while most other people will go VOD. Once downloads get fast enough everywhere and they have a storage solution...

Digital Distribution will win in the end. At some places you might have to still go to a store and download what you want onto a Zipdrive type thing though.