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Okay, are you really asking me if I can see Disney converting to a delivery system where they can potentially control your ability to view their content?  Possibly even charging you per view?  Is this a joke?  For those of us with longer memories, Disney was one of the first studios to get very happy with the DIVX concept.  So yeah, I can see Disney climbing aboard as fast as they possibly can.  For that matter, every other studio out there is dying to find a way to consistently resell their content to us.  Doesn't mean that they're going to stop making discs, but you can bet they are going to at least try all these new methods.  I've already read articles in the last few months regarding all the major studios being in talks with various delivery systems.

For what it's worth, what I really see happening is a fragmenting of the market.  There will still be discs, as well as digital deliveries.  The problem is that low volume titles will likely never get put on disc because of manufacturing costs.  There will be a certain class of title that will just plain be unavailable on BR.  As it stands now, studios are discovering that they can exclusively burn a crappy version of their title onto an inferior piece of media and charge full retail pricing for it.  For those of us disc media die-hards, the future is starting to shape up to be a bend-over-and-grab-your-ankles type of world for those niche titles we desire.

Now, for somebody who's only interested in the latest movie, no problems on the horizon.  For those of us who enjoy building a well-rounded library of films, the future is starting to look...expensive at the very least.  Possibly impossible.

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And it's possible in that scenario studios sell the distribution rights to another company. Granted it might not be of the same quality but at least you get the movie.