Physical media (CD's, DVD's, Tapes, Records, etc...) is dying. Good riddance, I say. Mark my words, within 10 years, we will be replacing the format wars (e.g., Betamax vs VHS, DVD-A vs SACD, etc...) with the codec wars (MP3 vs Ogg, Mpeg vs WMV, etc...). Frankly, codec wars are far easier to handle. Software upgradable solutions are always preferable to hardware upgradable ones. I look forward to a day when all data is tranferred in real time between systems without the need for an intervening physical medium. Purchase an album and have it downloaded to your home media server. Rent a movie and have it downloaded to your movie player on the fly. Home theater racks will shrink in size as the AV receiver starts to handle more and more of the functionality that the DVD player, the CD player, the VCR, the TiVo, and all the other stuff used to handle for it. No need for all that stuff if the receiver can just fill the void with the right codec! I can't wait. Now, how do we fit linux into that future?