Movies will never go all digital.
Eh, wrong.
When the day comes where everything is only avaliable via digital, I'll kill myself.
But thankfully, that day will probably come way after I'm gone.
Eh, also probably wrong, unless you're 65+ years-old.
Things are indeed headed down the road of being all digital. You all just aren't farward thinking enough.
(Don't get mad at me, that was a joke)
You all have to remember that our ability to transmit data grows exponetially. Just look at streaming video. We went from crappy ultra-low quality that had that aweful *buffering* notice to HD streaming on my gaming system/blu-ray player in a decade. Within the next decade, we will see actual store bought hard copies of film almost completely disappear as everything is slowly brought into the cloud. More and more things that you "own" will be stored somewhere in cyberspace and you will access it via broadband. The only barriers right now are piracy issues (how do you make sure access to "owned" property doesn't get shared?) and lack of broadband access in the US. Believe it or not, the US has a surprisingly low amount of people having access to broadband internet.
Yes, DVDs/Blu-rays will most likely still be around, but only in the sense that there are still people who record TV programs instead of using a DVR. They will be the minority, and a hell of a lot sooner than most of you think.
Don't believe me? Which one is cheaper for the film industry? Digital distribution. The only real expense is labor costs. Combine that with what i said about the growth of data transmission and you've got the death of the hard copy.
I used to be opposed to the idea of all digital until I moved back into the city and started watching Netflix streaming on my PS3. Now I look at my DVD collection as quaint.
Also, I LOLed when I read about the 300+ DVD collection. My wife and I have a collection of over 1100 DVDs/Blu-Rays. That does include a whole ton of kids DVDs for my children. But, that's counting box sets/TV programs as one individual unit! However, I've almost completely stopped buying films. The last thing we bought was Inception on Blu-Ray.