Not surprising Blu-ray is going away. With CDs there will maybe be enough die hard audiophiles to keep the market afloat because they think it sounds better. My take is that streaming can sound as good or better than CDs (plus you get hi res in streaming), but it takes a lot more effort to optimize versus just buying a high quality transport and DAC and being done. I get it. But with movies, does anyone really care that much if streaming movies isn’t quite as good as Blu-ray? I’d say 95% of the population couldn’t give a crap and the convenience of streaming overwhelms any quality differences. It’s just not as important when it comes to movies, hence the demise of Blu-ray.
I will say a major takeaway from this that I did not know was that I always assumed if you bought/downloaded music you owned it but apparently you do not and stuff you bought can still be yanked from you. That’s just flat-out wrong and scary. You don’t own the music but rather just the right to play the music. That was new for me and quite concerning. It’s a brave/scary new world. I’m not up on downloading but is it possible to ultimately download the music to a server? I’d think then you’d have it forever but not sure how that works. Like, if you buy something from Qobuz, can you ultimately download it to your own personal server? I’m admittedly ignorant in these things. Still scary.