I buy physical media for the most part because it retains resale value. But also the inconvenience of someone downloading for an extra hour or two shouldn’t drive us to build billions in infrastructure
- Multiple people videoconferencing at once, as was very common in a lot of households during COVID lockdown.
- Gaming.
- Other large downloads/uploads for WFH purposes.
- High-bitrate 4k UHD streaming.
All nice to haves but do we really need to build out all the infrastructure for that if most people don’t need that speed and definitely can’t convert that convenience into economic value. This is especially now that most companies are forcing everyone back and the government is pretending covid is no longer a thing