| vlad321 said: I called this all the way back in '07. Spin it whichever way you want, but blu-ray is still just a disc medium, it isn't "the future," or "next generation storage." It brings marginal benefits over DVD, and it is not even close to the gap between DVD and VHS, and that gap took forever to be overcome too. In the end blu-ray is just an iteration of a dying medium, the disk. |
Discs will never totally die. That is why holo-disc and protein discs are still in development. These discs hold terabytes of data. Their main use is for corporate off-server backups. Blu-ray is currently a very useful for corporate data storage as 50GBs of data means fewer discs are needed than DVD-DLs as one 50GB Blu-ray is equal to 5.8 DVD-DLs which saves a lot of storage space for corporates like Wal-Mart, Google, Sony, etc who has offsite back-ups into that are 100s of terabytes.
Never forget about corporate needs. I'm pretty sure at least Google has purchased the first holo-disc burner which cost about $20 million and discs cost like $1 million (?) each.
Also, even with current internet speeds, once UHD/SUHD movies are out the file sizes will massively increase making our nation's best consumer internet become useless. Even with my 40mbps internet I do not want to download/stream movies that are 80 - 100GBs each. It would take way to long. And even now Netflix last time i checked only streams 720p upscaled with 2.1 channel audio. They fail at 5.1 and 7.1, so they would be screwed with 9.2 channel audio. Internet speeds need to evolve to Google's network speeds, 2gbps, before we start seeing digital movies becoming mainstream.
