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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the-lost-son" data-source="post: 339359" data-attributes="member: 672">Nobody knows what the future might bring . But nothing lasts forever."The top eight US media groups plan to spend at least $115bn on new movies and television shows next year in pursuit of a video streaming business that loses money for most of them."[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ft.com/content/ae756fda-4c27-4732-89af-cb6903f2ab40[/URL]It's a rat race and we the consumer are benefitting right now. It doesn't seem likely that every streaming provider is going  to survive. I highly doubt that with these enormous investments we will pay +/- 10 bucks/month in the future. There will be an increased pressure to increase prices and to put commercials into streaming as well changing the whole game once more.Being a teacher myself I'm quite aware that young people don't buy DVDs (or go to the movies anymore either). I'm not sure how this is going to develop, but I doubt that streaming will become the only source of television at one time.20 years ago they declared to death of the printed book. They are still there with cook book sales even having increased in the last 10 years. So I regard the death of the discs as rumors which are greatly exaggerated. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>