no my statement's have been straight forward with what i have been posting this whole time.

the collector's IE: anyone who buy's movies are going to keep buying them.

so which do you see as holding the most market share?:

Digital downloads which has rental, and ownership how many rent movies vs' buy the digital copy

vs'

physical optical disc's

do you see Digital downloads over taking DVD's market share of in 5 year's, 10 year's, 20 year's

the point is people would have to up and quit buying DVD's..do you see that happening?

point is in order for Digital Downloads to become the major market share over physical media for home movie market it would have to over come the DVD market , which is not going to happen in any way shape or form in the near future.

the DVD market is just too large for that market share to dwindle away in any short length of time, due to the very reason's i just pointed out.

many people view Digital download's hold's no value after market. and still see it as it devalue's movies just like what has already happened to the music industry. 

I'm still waiting for a valid reason for me to get physical media over tv programs and movies I can get months early by DD

- You're the owner in all practical senses. You can lend them to friends, you can use them as a gift, you can resell them.

- You are not limited through DRM on which devices you can use to play them.

- You don't depend on the network infrastructure (in case of streaming) or on unreliable hard disk storage (in case of downloads) for availability and long term storage.

These are valid reasons for which DD makes a lot of sense for renting a video, much less for buying one.

But the infrastructure is there in a lot of places i have been doing it for a few years now

Even in most developed countries, telcos won't invest to bring their fastest lines to low population density areas. Here in Italy, for example, we have from 6 to 20Mbps lines in towns, but if you live in the country or small villages or in neglected suburbs, you can define yourself lucky if you get anti-digital divide 512 to 640kbps lines. In these areas people get new lines only when the older ones rot so much that repairs become uneconomical.

I would say that DD with a relatively decent internet connection generally wins out against leaving the house to go and rent a movie and the recent netflix statistics released which show more users getting movies through the internet vs dvd distribution support this. The convenience and quality factor doesn't side as positively for internet downloads against regular disc based distribution doesn't quite favour the internet as a distribution means yet however, although if the MPAA doesn't get their act together on friendly DRM free products they will continue to lose out.

The important killer app for DD isn't the speed of the internet, its the interface which lets you conveniently browse through a selection of videos. Natal is just as important for the Xbox 360s media download and rental services as it is for expanding the ways to play games and this device has seen an implementation as part of a TVs interface at a few consumer electronic shows.

Netflix on PS3...Wii and Iphone are in the works...seems like more and more people are going the DD way!

It seems as if DVD is dying and being consumed by DD and BRD

^ A slow and struggling death...