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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

No more physical media anymore. The future is all digital. Downloads/Cloud. I actually don't like that. This is getting a little off topic, but companies are trying to move towards an all download/streaming model for their content. So, instead of buying a physical copy of the movie, you have to download or stream it to whatever device you want to view it on. What makes it worse is that some of the major companies are pushing to an all streaming model, where you can never outright buy a movie; you can only stream it. So, let's say you pay $5.00 to rent the movie. You can watch it as many times as you want within a certain time frame (let's say a week) and then the next time you want to watch that movie you have to rent it again. They're trying to get away from allowing consumers to straight up buy it so they can watch it for the rest of their lives without ever having to pay again. Of course, there's always gonna be ways to get around this, but that's the direction they're trying to go in.

Yup so true Ludo, Its also a way to cutout the previously viewed market and stop the "little guy" from cashing in on used dvds and BluRays by not having them be physically available. Also Cloud services suck because if you are running a service like that you can easily "delete" objectionable material and more easily control what the population watches and doesn't watch. On a plus side Netflixs is not such a giant they recently had a price increase because of a plan change. What people fail to see is that the bigger this service gets the more money studios want for their films to be licensed for streaming services, recently Starz Entertainment was in talks about breaking off its renewal with Netflix which ends early next year. In the end id rather pay once for a movie and know ill have it untill they stop making blurays because im a physical format guy and this is the last form of media im buying lol.

End rant, sorry its kinda off topic.