The niche market that's relevant to this discussion isn't the one for a particular delivery system, but for a specific kind of content: non-blockbuster old films. By any measure, that is a niche market these days. It doesn't matter how many million Blu-Ray players there are out there when the...
I think it's far, far more likely that what would really upset the makers of classic films would be to see how awareness of their works, along with that of so many other parts of our past cultural heritage, has evaporated to the point of near-invisibility in today's popular consciousness. It's...