When, if ever will blu ray drives become standard.

[Alby_da_Wolf]

mike_intellivision said:

halogamer1989 said:

Alterego-X said:

Asmo said:

jasonnc80 said:

You know you're in the PC section right?

The future isn't download....it's already here.  Steam says hello.

Well yeah your bandwith is good enough for now. But will your bandwith grow as fast as the size of the future games?

 

It doesn't have to.

 

As soon as the bandwith is good enough for HD video streaming, cloud computing will replace the current local computing format.

You won't have to store the games/films/programs, you don't have to use processing power to use them, just join to a server that does it, and sends you the on-screen result like a video.

 

I don't know when will it happen, but probably sooner than the years required for Blu-ray to become  standard.

 

I am big on cloud computing esp for campaign docs and communication as I have exp w/ this.  However, the cloud would have to be protected with to prevent mass loss due to some Chinese DOD hacker or slick kid trying to get his kicks.

 

I think you have just described why Cloud Computing is a dream of someone whose head is in the clouds.

Getting back to Blu Ray, I think that it will plateau at a quarter of the market or less. The economic downturn is hurting big electronics purchases -- and a large HD TV is what is needed to truly enjoy Blu Ray.

By the time things get going again, a new tech will be ready to take its place.

 

Mike from Morgantown

 

And it would have to start from zero, just like BD did years ago. But by then BD would be cheap enough to be a no-brainer, considering its back-compatibility too, to choose it instead of an old DVD drive only a few bucks cheaper.

What I think, instead, is that BD drives have good chances to become widespread, but BD contents and BD blanks could have a less pervasive spread: people would have the CHOICE between BD and DVD and would choose BD mainly for movies heavily relying on effects and photography, while could happily settle for good enough and cheaper DVD's otherwise. At the same time BD blanks woud be used instead of DVD's only when necessary. And if we remember, we had two major removable standards since even before CD-R became commodity: first we had floppy and iomega Zip (*), then floppy and CD-R/RW, now we have CD-R/RW and DVD+-R/RW, having DVD and BD instead of a single standard wouldn't be anything new. And let's not forget DVD struggled even longer than BD with HD-DVD in an internal fratricide format war between "plus" and "minus", a war settled with a tie and the final dual format drives success that allowed DVD to take-off on PC's.

(*) let's not count the old 5.25" and 3.5" floppies coexistence, their respective capacities were in the same order of magnitude, they were redundant as they didn't cater for different purposes, so eventually only 3.5 survived.