Movies: DVD or Stream Media Online? Probably BD

Many analysts believe that DVDs are doomed to be disappear, although once as a main media of movies/videos, with the development of digital version movies uploaded online, there's little room for its existence. Worse still, the new risen Blu-ray HD movies also rub salt to the wounds. Sooner or later, DVD will leave us.

DVD collectors may feel disappointed about such result, while the sell of DVDs or the years were going down at a rapid speed. Not just from the stress of Blu-ray, some of the newly-released laptops even do not have a built-in DVD driver which makes it harder for DVD's survival. These somehow force people to watch videos or movies through the modern way-online viewing, what we call streaming media. Continuous, real-time and temporality, these three outstanding features out weight some limitations of streaming media. Viewing online, you need no driver, no waiting, even portable devices like cell phone, pad, or pc, which do have no DVD driver.

One biggest problem of watching through streaming media online is that you have to pay for it. And it allows you to watch it in 24 hours only, otherwise you have to repay it. Besides, it actually costs almost the same as a DVD.

One more thing, people would like the background story that may be embedded at the end of the DVD movies, some even include another end of the movies. After all, you have to wait for months or maybe longer for the movies set online for people to pay and watch.

To some extent, the statistics below could tell something (image from MacRumours)

Personally, I'll choose online movies mostly, however, I prefer the way DVD is, maybe as a collector's choice. It can store your data, and you don't have to worry about the network, or the limitation of certain data stream. What do you think? Will DVDs still be alive years later? Or will BD die as well?