You could say the same thing about having your entire music library at your fingertips digitally and having to get up to swap a CD.

You can play music while doing other things. With video games, it is the thing that you are doing. If getting out of a chair to swap a disc is a big issue for someone, that's really not a healthy sign.

Good point. Still, it's (and I loath to use this phrase) the future. Movies then. Makes more sense on a HTPC than having to swap out discs.

>Holy crap, that's lazy.

Isn't a lot of the benefits of technology about making things easier to do?

If you have small kids in the house, it also saves you from the inevitability of these expensive discs getting scratched.

That actually is a great reason for going all digital. The other reason (I don't think it was mentioned in the article) is that over the years (PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360) disc drive failures have been one of the biggest hardware problems I've faced with consoles.

I actually rip digital copies of my kids' DVDs, then stream them to the TV over my network for precisely this reason. Left to their own devices, they will trash any given DVD in under a week.

Exactly! That's why I never use remote controls for any television in my house. I want to live an active lifestyle