Financially fits list of gadgets that will not be around soon! Consoles?

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Vetteman94 said:

Griffin said:
Are they suggesting that movie discs in general will go away or just DVD's? To suggest disc media will just vanish is insane. After 1080p it will be some crazy high res like 4k, please tell me how we are streaming 4k videos? Most ISP's have limits on bandwidth and if they don't they are switching towards it.

Yeah thats why i dont believe disc based media, especially for movies, is going anywhere.  They are getting close to publishing the UHDTV standards.  it will have 16 times the resolution of current HD TVs.  That will make file sizes huge for DD,  and like you said with ISPs have bandwidth caps that will make things difficult.  

20 years ago the internet was barely a thing.  15 years ago 56k modems were unheard of.  10 years ago 256kb DSL was lightning speed.

You're telling me technology doesn't advance?  Streaming media is now *the* thing and it's only going to become more and more popular.  The ISP's that do have bandwidth caps will eventually have to get rid of them or lose their customers.  It's very easy to see a future only 10 years down the line where disc based media isn't the dominant thing.  Streaming is getting better and better and it's getting easier and easier to get internet to further out places.  It's not hard to imagine a future only 10 years out where popping a disc in a try is as foreign to kids as blowing on a Nintendo cart.

As for CD/DVD writeable media, there's no doubt in my mind people will eventually stop using those as storage.  It was never a good solution because it has always been so slow.  Sure, it can store a lot of stuff, but it also takes 10-15 minutes to write a DVD.  We already have incredibly cheap USB drives and the cloud.

All-in-all, this is a pretty safe article and most of those things (even consoles) are common sense.  Gaming will stay around, it's just likely that there won't be a gaming first dedicated device hanging around your living room.