none said:

Resolution/format don't interest me, the future of home video for me is being able to access anything ever made. I want to be able to query the world library and watch specifics.

This is certainly a desirable goal, but for some things I want to be able to choose the specific version I want to see. Given the history of what is provided to us by the content owners, there will seemingly always be room for storage outside their domain.

This is the exact need that probably brought most of us to sites like this one in the first place. To me, it speaks very loudly to the ownership vs. licensing issue.

A great example of epic fail along those lines is Netflix. One minute something is in the queue and the next, not so much. Call me old fashioned, but I don't want the things I pay money for to be temporally dependent on if the content creators and providers are getting along that particular day.

There may not always be physical discs, but I for one am glad that there will always be open formats and people working to make sure I can do what I want with the content I purchase. For me, the physicality is less important than the portability of media.