My assumption has for long been that the Next Big Thing in music, movie, etc., storage is going to be accessing it from the Internet, rather than keeping in the form of Things, at home. In fact, this already is the Big Thing.

But there may be life in smaller Things for a few decades yet. I refuse to buy CDs for twice as much, even if they are in "SACD" super-surround orgasmasound with quadropheniac nobs on. But, if the price is right, I might consider getting the entire output of Beethoven, in SACD etc., on one disc.

Well, I probably wouldn't. But future generations might.