Yeah I'm on the side of the nay-sayers here. I think the companies would be short selling themselves big time on the current gen software, which they need for R&D for next gen. Also I think in this particular generation we've just now started catching up to the curve hardware wise. Both as Consumers and Software developers. I don't think these companies are ready to throw a new system at people now that they just spent their money on an HD TV with the proper hook ups and sound systems.
Also what would the medium be. It would have to already be devoloped for them to implement it in time. Personally I think Next GEN needs something new like Holographic Data which is still way to expensive. As far as others: quote Wikipedia: "No commercial product based on 3D optical data storage has yet arrived on the mass market, although several companies are actively developing the technology and predict that it will become available by 2010."
So I would imagine 2012 to be earliest maybe Q4 2011.
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