It may be just another few years before nearly every house has access to broadband in some fashion. It looks like the movie industry may even exploit this and could make optical video discs obsolete in the next few years. For example, if a country decided to upgrade its entire electrical grid to be broadband enabled, then streaming based movie rentals or even movie purchases can be made available to anyone with a compatible player and a regular household electrical outlet to plug it in to. Unfortunately, fair-use backups may even be ruled out as there is no physical media to get lost, damaged or worn out.
