It must be really intresting for media companies, because 500GB movie would be hard or almost imposable to download from internet. It is another obsticle making piracy of original content more difficult. Yes, I know that it is possable to rip blueray movie into 50Mb mkv file.
I beleave that internet would destroy cable companies monopoly on content distribution and every news, sports chanel or soup opera studio would distribute its content directly over internet by passing major cable giants, but it would take very long time before small companies would be able to make expensive movies without funds of large production conglomerates. So the life of "optical" disk can be extended artificially for a long time.
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