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Unless Blu-ray can give consumers what they want, it won't be digital distribution that kills off the disc.

Blu-ray’s copy protection arm last week approved a long-awaited managed copy license agreement that will give consumers the ability to make a digital copy of their Blu-ray discs. That got me started thinking: Can Blu-ray ever win big in the marketplace? Blu-ray may have a presence in 11 million U.S. homes, but truth be told, those players are mostly PS3s, where the main use is, not surprisingly, playing games. And in spite of that presence, its [...]