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Pressed optical discs, burned-on-demand optical discs, and electronic downloads would be cheaper distribution methods than pre-loaded USB flash drives. With downloads and on-demand manufacturing, there is no need to maintain an inventory of pressed discs or pre-loaded drives; no need to...

If you mean DIVX as in the Circuit City / Hollywood lawyer creation, that was very evil, indeed. All DIVX brought to the table was "rent forever, own never". Even DIVX-Silver discs, which supposedly gave ownership of the movie, turned into pumpkins when the central DRM servers went down for...

Two cases that I can recall of USB stick packaging affecting prices.: 1. For Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion"), Apple dropped the usual DVD release. An electronic download was $30. A preloaded USB stick was $70. 2. There was a Beatles box set on a USB stick. If memory serves, this was high-priced...

It would increase them. Even cheap, small USB drives cost $2 or more, while discs might cost 10 cents or less. That might drive movie prices up by $4 or more once you factor in margins. No. DVDs and Blu-Rays are already digital. And you can stamp out an entire layer of a DVD or Blu-Ray...