Robert Capps in Wired argues that Discs (of all kinds) are so 20th century, the glorious future is fat pipes (WiMax and better broadband) and download-on-demand. Pointing to the victory of lo-fi itunes vs hi-fi SACD, he says consumers are voting flexibility over quality. With a Netflix poised to turn into an "iMovies" (when broadband providers complete their glacial slow move beyond 10mbit), and TIVO figuring out how to add jam data down tiny pipes, he may have a point: the battle of Bluray vs Whatever-ray maybe almost irrelevant. But for a minority who value audio and visual fidelity, the prospect of a decade of "lossy high compression on tap" is rather depressing.