Blu Ray's Fuzzy Future (NYTimes CES Preview)

[SamuelRSmith]

DMeisterJ said:

welshbloke said:
Blu Ray will never be the future because the future is changing and as I said previously they missed the boat because the industry could not decide 2 years ago when they needed to.

So whereas it may sound implausible Blu Ray certainly has had its legs chopped from under it and one of the reasons is digital distribution.

Please, use punctuation.

 

 Although that comma still works, it's highly unnecessary. I suppose, that you were trying to make a point (at least, I hope that it was because you were trying to make a point).

Arguments about connection speeds just don't hold up anymore. The BBC iPlayer streams TV quality video as standard, and the High Quality picture requires a whooping 1MBPs connection. 3/4 people in the UK have a broadband connection, and by 2012, 30-50MBPs lines will be available to the majority of the country, with >GBPs connections available cheaply in most cities and large towns. Japan and Sweden are already there, and I remember reading about similar projects in Australia.

I predict that by 2012 on-demand high definition content will be accessible to all of Western Europe, Japan, Australia and most of urban America (USA + Canada). For the record, I personally predict that the UK will be there in 2010.