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be gone evil time stealing television.
dvds can be played on blu-ray players... so there's no need to throw away your dvd collection when/if you get a blu-ray player.
PS3 is great!
My question is this: is blu-ray going to be the format that everything moves toward so that even education discs will need to be played on a blu-ray player?
We really don't watch much television. Mostly ours is used in homeschooling. My question is this: is blu-ray going to be the format that everything moves toward so that even education discs will need to be played on a blu-ray player?
My question is this: is blu-ray going to be the format that everything moves toward so that even education discs will need to be played on a blu-ray player?
No, I doubt it. Computer hard drives/USB drives&floppy disks/memory/download speeds have been increasing in capacity much faster than CDs/DVDs/Blu-Ray that it may not be long before optical discs are fased out completely. Compare downloading a compressed Blu-Ray movie and storing it on a USB stick today to downloading a CD of music and storing it on floppy disk in 1985 and you'll see what I mean. One technology is increasing by a factor of 10 per decade, the other by 100 to 1,000. By the time it achieves the dominance over DVD that DVD had over VHS, Blu-Ray will be obsolete.
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For example, I remember perhaps a decade ago it was assumed that optical discs would continue to be used in portable music players, and there was hype around the idea that one day CDs would contain so much music that one could fit their entire CD collection on one disc, and carry it around with them; then the iPod and similar products blew that idea out of the water, pretty much overnight. I would not be surprised if the same thing that happened to audio happens to video within 5 years.
My question is this: is blu-ray going to be the format that everything moves toward so that even education discs will need to be played on a blu-ray player?
No, I doubt it. Computer hard drives/USB drives&floppy disks/memory/download speeds have been increasing in capacity much faster than CDs/DVDs/Blu-Ray that it may not be long before optical discs are fased out completely. Compare downloading a compressed Blu-Ray movie and storing it on a USB stick today to downloading a CD of music and storing it on floppy disk in 1985 and you'll see what I mean. One technology is increasing by a factor of 10 per decade, the other by 100 to 1,000. By the time it achieves the dominance over DVD that DVD had over VHS, Blu-Ray will be obsolete.
-----Added 1/3/2009 at 02:21:19 EST-----
For example, I remember perhaps a decade ago it was assumed that optical discs would continue to be used in portable music players, and there was hype around the idea that one day CDs would contain so much music that one could fit their entire CD collection on one disc, and carry it around with them; then the iPod and similar products blew that idea out of the water, pretty much overnight. I would not be surprised if the same thing that happened to audio happens to video within 5 years.
I watched "Transformers" last night and rather sadly the film blew me away, if I am going to buy it I have a hankering to buy it on blu-ray.
In my view as a new profile blu-ray palyer only costs $220 (£150) or so it is worth buying the player if you have the cash to spare and if you really want a film then get it on blu-ray.
I find the speed with which CRT televisons have disappeard from shops to be amazing, we really are moving into a new technological age.
I find my admiration for Transformers to be very embarrasing, I have Battleship Potempkin on my shelf to show off and can whitter away for hours on the merits of Swedish cinema.