You guys aren't so much spinning in circles, as you are circling a drain.
This entire conversation is a whirlpool.
I doubt I will ever be able to justify such costs, even twenty for the blu-ray, dvd combo pack filled with extras is too much unless it was a major film I wanted to own and even then I would wait for a price drop or find it used. That just states I like to find really good prices and can only judge the digital pricing on the standards and they are still asking too much, not sure where they thought asking twenty dollars for something of less quality was a good idea.
Thirty dollar is extreme, even twenty is, then there is the issue of catalog titles, these films you can find for five dollars new yet iTunes would want fifteen for a SD edition and twenty for an HD version.
I imagine a lot of people just do not care, it is in their budget to pay these prices, I am just too used to five dollar blu-rays and two dollar dvds (used market). Some could call me cheap and yes, I will agree with that, I like the idea of getting as much as I can.
I did make my own HTPC awhile back, of course we are talking full quality blu-ray films (from my personal collection to note) and those files can be large, 25-50GB each.
Media rated fire safe.
I do like the idea of cloud storage for back ups only, I still want my content with me. One can always send over an encrypted file.
