Exactly. If I spend $5 to buy a digital film, watch it once, and the company I purchased it from goes out of business and I lose access to it, it's not really any different than renting.
Mark
Including the HD DVDs and some DVDs that are in the overflow room, I currently have about 1,600 films on disc. I have just under 600 films in iTunes. Most of them are duplicates of what I own on Blu-ray. But about 70 or so are films I own on HD DVD or DVD. A handful are films I don't own on...
I'm too lazy to get up and put a Blu-ray in the player. If the movie I want to watch is available via my Apple TV, that's how I watch it.
BONUS: Movies via streaming get started right away. That's WAY better than the bunch of menus, ads, previews and other bullsheet that studios cram onto...
I still have about 100 titles on HD DVD. Slowly but surely, as they come available on iTunes for $4.99 - $7.99, I am purchasing the digital copies. I have very limited room left for storing physical media. All of my HD DVDs are already stored in another room and that space is full too.
I...