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@MythHunterKing

While I don't think that DVDs will disappear any time soon (i.e. at least not in this decade) I believe that internet media (be it a legal source or otherwise) has hurt their sales immensely. I have the whole MLP: FiM series to date totally just on my laptop (and a backup drive of course) and I'd wager many other people do something similar. I understand that internet is still not convenient or affordable for everyone, but we are at the point now that even someone like myself who can't afford steady internet service at home can still spend the afternoon here at the public library with my laptop and use the free wifi, watching or downloading the latest episodes of my favorite shows. Eventually things like Netflix and iTunes will have made buying a physical copy of a video just as obsolete as services like Steam have made buying a new video game in a box virtually obsolete. I'm not saying that I necessarily like it (if my laptop dies I'm screwed) but it does seem to be the way that things are going.