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Scott, I’m with you on the $5 thing - for both digital and physical. Ironically, my physical collection ballooned over the past couple years because there were a bunch of movies I wanted to see and it cost about the same price to buy the disc as it did to rent the same title digitally for a...

I always enjoy a good conversation with you, sir. I think the next point I’d make, using your UHD copy of Spider-Man (I’m calling it UHD specifically for a point I’ll make later, bear with me), is just that I don’t see that as being completely foolproof. (Obviously I’m still a disc guy and...

I’m not sure that anyone’s missing that point, I just think that on a practical level, it’s not relevant to many of us. To go back to my earlier example with Star Trek II on VHS. (I just picked that one because it was the first tape I saw when I glanced around the room but any VHS will do.) To...

How is this any different, practically speaking, than collecting movies in a format that becomes obsolete, or physically damaged over time? I had a library of hundreds and hundreds of VHS tapes. It’s completely worthless now. There is no market whatsoever for viewing films in low resolution and...

I agree with Neil about waiting and seeing before making any judgments - we just don't have enough information about what exactly happened. We don't know which titles were removed or what the specific circumstances surrounding those titles are. It could be, for instance, that the customer's...

Even if they do, I think the studios would still support those purchases being accessible in whatever company would supersede them; that's what Movies Anywhere and Ultraviolet are here to guarantee. Now, if the studios collapse entirely in 20 years, that's another matter -- but at that point...

Those are certainly valid points, and in the interest of full disclosure, I too am less interested in making a digital purchase without a corresponding physical item (though I have absolutely no trouble with making digital rentals). But to a certain extent, even if one has discs purchased, that...

I think UHD is going to be something that I ultimately upgrade to not because I'm seeking to overhaul my system, but because an HD component stopped working and needed to be replaced. It's not that I would avoid UHD at all costs, but that it's more of an incremental improvement to me than...

Why not? I do that all the time. I was watching a TV show with my wife one day, and she commented on one of the character's outfits: "That's the worst suit I've ever seen!" I replied that I had seen a worse suit in "2001: A Space Odyssey". In less time than it would take for me to get up...