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I think that it would be a nightmare. Every time I wanted to "own" a movie, I would have to keep my computer busy downloading it for hours...and what about the event of a power shortage during the download? I would have already paid the studio, and would end up with half a movie or even less. Would I have to pay the whole fee again to try another download? Another thing, it may sound silly to some people, but I really like ( and I know there are others ) to really "collect" movies in physical form, meaning not only to have the disc but it's box with pictures, photos, titles and so on, and I like to have that big collection of DVDs displayed on the shelf. Like other people, I also enjoy the act of going to the store to buy a disc, not only a disc that I already intended to buy, but also to be surprised and finding among the titles a movie that I wasn't even thinking of when I left home, but developed the desire to buy in the moment I saw it for sale ( it happens quite often to me, specially when I see classics from the 1930's, 40's and 50's for sale at very low prices ).
I can only hope that the large chains like Wal-Mart and others, who really have a lot to loose if this downloading practice catches on, make pressure on the studios so the studios will not finish recording movies on DVD. I read somewhere that it seems that Disney is making pressure on the other movie studios to increase the sale of movies on the web downloading system.
Not being able to buy movies in physical form, to me, is like loosing part of the experience. It's more or less the same feeling I have when I drink soda on these plastic bottles that are in use nowadays, when compared to the glass bottles used in not a so distant past. The industry used glass bottles for years for one good reason: there wasn't a plastic available with the right chemical properties to preserve the taste and other qualities of the soda drinks. They spent years and millions of dollars in research trying to create a suitable plastic. I don't know how it is in the USA and other markets, but here in Brazil a very small fraction of the sales of Coca Cola is still made in glass bottles. And, after I tasted Coca Cola from a glass bottle a short time ago, my suspicions were confirmed: despite all the money and effort put on the creation of the plastic bottles, Coca Cola still tastes better if it is in a glass bottle. I really can't explain it with precise words, but to me, it really tastes a little better. It seems that it's very hard, if not impossible, to create a plastic with all that chemical properties of glass. The plastic does alter, at least a tiny little bit, the taste of the soda.
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