What Comes After Blu Ray & HD-DVD?

DVDs aren’t a thing of the past–they’re very much still part of the present. The price premium on everything Blu Ray is significant enough to keep me away. I especially can’t afford the new tv required to enjoy Blu Ray when I have a perfectly functioning tv and DVD player. It may still be a while before DVDs are no longer “good enough” and a format switch is necessary. At that point, I hope to just leap frog past Blu Ray altogether (just like I am leap frogging Windows Vista to get Windows 7).

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Agreeing with Freddy although I don’t think Richard meant that DVD’s are completely dead altogether. Here in Australia Blu-Ray has had a hard-time catching on and still has only a very small percentage of the market. One can only assume that once people hear about the new HVD media then Blu-Ray will be by-passed completely. And that’s got to be a good thing not only for our pockets but also for the environment and all those soon to be deprecated blu-ray players.

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trying to milk people? old technology is still fine, blue ray is still new, give it 10 years or more to wear out.

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IMO every disc based medium is a thing if the past. A regular 1,5 hour movie at 1080p format and some compression is about 12GB to download. And with the current Cable/ADSL internet connections this isn’t too much of a hassle. Take then the dropping prices per GB for harddrives in account and I expect disc based to be over and out sooner than we think.

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“I especially can’t afford the new tv required to enjoy Blu Ray when I have a perfectly functioning tv and DVD player.”

Sorry… But when you CAN afford to buy the required TV, you will realize – your current TV / DVD player are NOT perfectly functioning

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I think a newer technology will be for those that want to have the newest, it has always been this way. But with new technology, comes a burden of other mechanisms to keep up. With a 6TB disc, it will be hard for people to make backups of anything put on it (if it is entertainment of some sort, aka movies, music). And the last time I checked, transferring 6TB over the net will still take some time. I do see this new technology being used by corporations for backups.

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Solid state storage is the future!

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I see solid state/flash memory taking over as soon as the price point drops low enough… it is close now. 4GB SD card around $20 even for high speed. I have had my sd cards washed with my laundry several times and they still tick away… try that with a cd. and with Blue ray having a hard time catching on now may be the perfect time. Bye-Bye disk hello card!

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Don’t think we’ll need it for movies. Will be wonderful for making backups of data, though.

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