Really!!!!!?????????

No way!?

Right.....Ok.

Failed Sarcasm?

Sony's response:

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/HD/Blu_ray/G2A4T5F9

Well yes, that's why they predicted the blu ray lasting 2-3 years less than the dvd :P

As for the VHS thing, VHS is not the type of product that would obey Moore's Law, whereas disk based storage is, that's why tapes stayed at a constant level for so long until a better technology could be developed)

Sony executives have come out swinging following comments from Samsung executives that Blu ray will be dead in five years time.
Sony claim that Samsung's comment are a beat up and "couldn't be further from the truth."

TV Predictions claim that in a blog posted at Sony.com, Rick Clancy, a Sony senior vice president, defends Blu-ray by noting there are already millions of PlayStation 3 consoles in homes with Blu-ray players inside. He adds that Blu-ray should last for at least 10 years.

"I believe the value of this product is only going to increase for many years to come — perhaps a decade — as developers realize the true power of PS3 in the new games they create, and as the device's real world features like Blu-ray compatibility blend with new virtual and, yes, networked world features like PSN and Home," Clancy writes.

The Sony executive was reacting to a recent comment by Andy Griffiths, Samsung's UK director of consumer electronics.

"I think (Blu-ray) has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10," Griffiths told the web site, Pocket-lint.

The remark was likely to irk fellow industry officials who are trying to create the perception that Blu-ray is a long-term replacement for the standard-def DVD. Additionally, in the same interview, Griffiths took some shots at his colleagues for what he labeled inferior disc players.

"Maybe they need better engineers," said Griffiths, according to Pocket-lint.

Griffiths did not explain why he believed that Blu-ray had a relatively short shelf life.
But Clancy said Hollywood has only "scratched the surface as far as Blu-ray movie and television titles are concerned. As we witnessed with DVD, you can expect thousands and thousands of high-definition titles to becoming to a Best Buy, Wal-mart and Blockbuster near you — not to mention via the mail through Netflix."

He added that millions of people are buying high-def TVs, which will make them likely candidates to eventually buy Blu-ray players.

"With all of this said, I believe the Blu-ray format will not only coexist with the networked era, but will actually enhance it for many years to come. In fact, you'll see it evolve this way in new products from Sony and, I suspect, others, including some of the early naysayers," Clancy wrote.

The core problem Blu-Ray faces is there isn't much interest in it outside of people who would have bought a PS3 anyways ...

Now, this could be because it is still a new format after all it typically takes several years for people to know/care about the benefits of a new format; it took almost a decade for CD to become popular and it took 4 to 5 years for DVD to really catch on. On top of that I think a lot of people's expectations for Blu-Ray were/are set too high because of its association with the Playstation, in fact there were analysts who claimed that (when the PS3 was going to launch first half of 2006) there would be 40 Million PS3/Blu-Ray players in people's homes by the end of 2007. This is made worse (in part) because some movies perform really well (The Dark Knight) because the target demographic of the movie lines-up really well with the userbase of the PS3; when a few big movies get 20% to 25% of their initial sales from Blu-Ray it gets people to expect that soon most movies will see sales in that range, and when movies with a drastically different target demographic see under 5% of their sales on Blu-Ray it looks far worse.

@ SMCC, that's hilarious

Samsung: Blu Ray will last 9 years!
Sony: How dare you, it will last 10!

XD

Do any of them know what they are talking about?

Why are you posting an article that was published 7 months ago? The Dark Knight just sold 2 million Blu-ray disks. Why don't we talk about that? We could also discuss how Blu-ray players are the in the top 5 of most sought after devices this Christmas. Samsung has an interest in Blu-ray's success, but they wouldn't mind seeing it fail either. Blu-ray is essentially owned by Sony.

im sticking with DVD sorry i don't want to be spyed on