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"Blu-Ray has five years left" - Samsung

CrewPix.com said:
I wonder what will replace Blu-Ray?
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So you guys think $12 plastic discs you can pick up at the convenience store are going to be replaced by:
1. Heavy, delicate and expensive spinning hard drives?
2. Even more expensive flash drives?
3. Downloadable content when most ISPs are enforcing bandwidth caps rather than keeping up with their infrastructure demands?

I was thinking of something more along the lines of Redray.
 
I got one word for you.....thumb drive......ok thats 2 words but the price will drop to a point where ease of manufacture and durability will make it attractive. will probably have faster memory in it too.

or not.
 
Excuse me? This is an article where Blu-Ray is replaced by OLED displays? I get it... better to put development $$ into OLED research, but still - it's a lame segue.

While I'd like to think Blu-Ray will be replaced by a 1080p 4:4:4 format or higher, it's not likely to happen. Instead internet streaming will gradually take over the market with hyper-compressed 1080p that's worse than satellite, cable or over-the-air ATSC. Blu-Ray will hold the title for quality and reliability over all of these, but people will turn to the internet simply for the instant gratification and convenience.

Eventually internet streaming might exceed what blu-ray has to offer in terms of quality, but that represents an enormous increase in internet bandwidth only available through massive infrastructure improvements.
 
Hey guys sorry about it, but...
Are you using external burners for bluray output on macs??
Whats the secret?
 
Thank You Matt...but what about the burner device??
 
It will be solid state memory, but I doubt that anyone will push Blue Ray for a while... it takes too much work and money to get people to want to switch. ut the next thing will be solid state for sure.

Maybe little thumb drives with tiny batteries that work intermittently to extend the life when not used for a very long time.


And the internet will be there though it all... but there are two different things here... one is the www and the other is portable media. So both.
 
Tom said:
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Yes!... because I would LOOOVE to keep my entire movie collection in a delicate, guaranteed-to-break-down, rust-prone, non-tactile object. ...And because I just HATE how physical discs with professionally designed packaging just look too similar to books on my shelves and therefore give off a whiff of culture to my home decor. I say lets keep our homes looking like uncultured geek dungeons by having everything on hard drives. :sorcerer:
 
CrewPix.com said:
So you guys think $12 plastic discs you can pick up at the convenience store are going to be replaced by:
1. Heavy, delicate and expensive spinning hard drives?
2. Even more expensive flash drives?
3. Downloadable content when most ISPs are enforcing bandwidth caps rather than keeping up with their infrastructure demands?
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I disagree.

In 2000, a 20GB harddrive cost $300. Right now, that will buy me 1.5 terabytes. The trends favor massive HDD storage capacity at your average, tech-savvy home, with most devices eventually linked - ie, desktop in the bedroom linked to the TV in the living room, etc.

Broadband speeds follow an almost exactly inverse trendline, with faster and faster speeds. Once fiber-to-the-home takes hold, bandwidth ain't gonna be an issue.

Technology trends favor faster and faster broadband, and ever-cheaper HDD or solid-state storage.
 
TheThe said:
Yes!... because I would LOOOVE to keep my entire movie collection in a delicate, guaranteed-to-break-down, rust-prone, non-tactile object. ...And because I just HATE how physical discs with professionally designed packaging just look too similar to books on my shelves and therefore give off a whiff of culture to my home decor. I say lets keep our homes looking like uncultured geek dungeons by having everything on hard drives. :sorcerer:
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So you like little plastic boxes with neat pictures? This makes you feel all warm and fuzzy? :)

Last week I went camping, and I brought along my "Movies" 500GB external drive. It has something like 440GBs of mostly 720p and 1080p movies. I was able to plug it into my laptop at night, in my tent, and choose any HD movie I wanted -- then play it right off the external drive on my laptop at 1080p. Somehow, I wasn't missing the plastic boxes. :wink:
 
Tom said:
So you like little plastic boxes with neat pictures? This makes you feel all warm and fuzzy? :)

Last week I went camping, and I brought along my "Movies" 500GB external drive. It has something like 440GBs of mostly 720p and 1080p movies. I was able to plug it into my laptop at night, in my tent, and choose any HD movie I wanted -- then play it right off the external drive on my laptop at 1080p. Somehow, I wasn't missing the plastic boxes. :wink:
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And here I thought the whole idea of going camping was to get away from civilization and electricity and modern comforts. :innocent:

In any case, I still fail to see how having a nice shelf of movies with cases precludes one from also having the iTunes version on one's laptop. In fact I think that the tendency in the future is for movie releases to also include a digital copy for when people want to go camping. I think a few blu-ray releases already did this.

By the way, when you were camping, what movie did you end up seeing?
 
Holographic discs are expected to be the replacement technology for Blu-Ray.
 
Agree with Tom, HD rules and bluray are obsolete already. HD-DVD folks where smart to drop it before they lost even more money.
 
Agree as well, blu-ray is too late. It will take too long to convince the average customers, the masses. Buy a macbook touch/pro in 2011 and you will get right in your hands at least 500 Mb ssd storage, wireless HDMI to connect to your flat tv, integrated 4g/LTE with at least 20Mbit/s internet access and a nice oled display. So you can download your HD Videos via mobile internet very fast and easy. I think, it's all about convenience, the iPhone is a good example how it works.
 
TheThe said:
And here I thought the whole idea of going camping was to get away from civilization and electricity and modern comforts. :innocent:
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Well, in the case of Tom, all he has to do is switch the laptop off and, voila - no more civilization. :w00t:

It's an interesting contrast: Mother Nature and modern technology.

I was climbing a mountain peak last weekend and I was passing through a protected territory in the mountains:

Ancient deep forests, exotic plants and animals, all shades of red, green and blue and an unbelievable quietness.

Suddenly, a jet fighter passed through the sky and reminded me that I live in the 21-st century...

The jet looked kinda stupid compared to the epic mountains. Some silly arrogant mamal sitting in a "smart" metallic pegassus, who thinks that he is the one that runs the show...

But in places like this, one gets to remember who actually runs the show...

Too bad I didn't have decent equipment to record the scene, but.. as the Italians say:

La vita se vive o se scribe.

One can't really *record* such a thing, it has to be experienced...

Silly tiny mamals we all are...
 
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