My daughter in a few years: "Ok, so let me get this straight dad... They used to sell movies on coasters?"
Sadly, I think it might be more than a few years.
Sadly? I say gladly. We don't do Netflix, or Blockbuster, or the RedBox, or anything else like that. We get our movies from the library, for free (okay, tax-sponsored). Yeah, it takes a while for reservations on the latest releases to make their way to us, but we don't care. For that model to work, movies have to be sold on re-usable physical media that the library can loan out to a single person/family at a time. I suppose if technology progresses, that can move beyond coasters to other formats, but a "streaming only" model is bad news.
I'm sorry, but that's not a great argument. You have issues like that whenever there's a format change. After all, the library loans ebooks now.
Besides, I think it'll be a long, long time before it's streaming
only. I should have said that what I want is streaming
parity with DVD and Bluray. After all, DVD is still around, and will be for a long while.
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