"Blu-Ray Dead In 5 Years" Says Samsung!

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SMcc1887 said:

Hamister said:
I agree with Samsung on this. Blu-ray will most likely not see the same kind of life span as DVD. The reasoning behind this is that there were far greater differences/advantages with DVD compared to VHS, than there is between DVD and Blu-ray. In other words it will take much longer for Blu-ray to capture the market, than it took DVD.

I believe we will see downloadable content take over the market within a few years - perhaps even before Blu-ray has replaced DVD as market leader. It's inevtiable.

No its not. Are you telling me you would like to sit and download a monster like MGS4? Right now that would take forever.

Before downloading takes over discs speeds will have to greatly increase, and even then I feel there will still be a demand for physical collections (people will still rather have a physical collection of eg: movies than a collection stored on a HDD)

 

I am one who would still rather have a physical cd with cover art and liner notes for my music.  Didn't stop the downloading of music from happening.  IMO there is even less reason to want a physical form of a movie.