For reasons unknown to me, I got an email a few days ago about Amazon (which I prefer to call amazombie--it's what Quentin Collins was heard chirping outside Rachel Drummond's window during a certain storyline: "amazombie! amazombie! amazombie!" yeah, I know I have WAY too much time on my hands) starting up a "store" on their site where one could "buy" episodes of Star Trek for upload onto their laptops. I have a friend who has been watching a current series called Heroes this way, buying episodes at the Apple Store and then watching it in his car in the bumper-to-bumper traffic of the LA mega-glopolis.
I can already foresee classic TV shows such as DS getting this treatment. If I had access to the software to do it, it would depend upon the fidelity of the upload. I am of the opinion that a lot of the stuff that's shared online winds up looking or sounding utterly wretched. Maybe the quality of the hardware you play the thing on enters into all of this.
G.