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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Sure we will use the HVD for Movies too. Think of High Definition 3D Movies or perhaps Holographic image projection. There are many possibilities where technology does not yet exist or it currently being developed and which will require hugh amounts of storage. With more space comes more data to eat it up. Look at Windows for example. You would expect that a Company with their resources would at least require that their code be written with as little overhead as possible to make t function better and faster, but nope! What used to fit on 1 diskette then three then 10 then a CD then 2 CDs currently ships on a DVD! This seems to be a standard nowadays. Where programmers used to take pride in streamlining their products they now could care less about such things. Thats because no matter how sloppy it is it will fit on a CD or DVD. THey are cheap and people don’t know or care about that part as long as it it pretty and/or sounds cool! Longer on-line storage of Security footage. No need to go to the backup (as often) to call up what ‘went down’ in the parking lot behind Wendy’s last Thursday evening or in the 7-11 parking lot two weeks ago

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SSS: Solid state storage (flash drive type) technology is the way forward…why?

No moving part. DVD, Blu-Ray and holographic technology all require motors and lenses.

Solid state storage mean that the players will get smaller and smaller, and the capacities larger and larger. With physical discs, there is wear and tear which is old tech.

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