This argument is rediculious, as everyone before me has stated, at any point in time there are people who want something PHYSICAL, a collection of games/movies/books that show people who come over "this is what i've done" like posters on a wall showing people who enter your room your favorte painters, musicians, or movies.
What about when portable digital book readers came out? following BR doom-sayer's logic, shouldn't things like Kindle have killed Books? not gonna happen, because people like to have a book-shelf full of books even if they've only read half of them.
You cant download what a BRD gives you, not in terms of video, audio, OR special features, things like when you bought the Dark Knight on BR you could go into an online screening and watch the movie in a chat-room with Christopher Nolen and ask him questions about it, etc. Stuff like that is cool, and will NEVER be done with downloadables. No commentaries, no extra scenes, no storyboards.
Its interesting i found this topic right after it was discussed on the Bombcast, but think of it this way, by the time our internet is fast enough to download the size of games or movies now, imagine how much bigger the stuff would be by then.
There will always be a market for people who want the disc, either for the physical disc itself, or for the bonus special features that come on the disc. There will be a time when the buying of physical media slows, and in some cases it has started already, but there will never be a time when physical media dies out completely...hmm..well maybe in like 10 or 12 years, when everyone gets stuff beamed direcly into their brain, but not any-time soon.
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