flagship on 12 July 2008
| dbot said: There will be a need for disc based delivery systems for decades to come. For the next decade Blu-ray will be that delivery system. As more manufacturers market and produce Blu-ray players the cost of the PS3 will drop substantially. At launch it was estimated the Blu-ray drive cost roughly $350 now you can buy an internal drive for $150. Sony will make money on Blu-ray and they are in a position to capitalize on movie downloads as well. |
Except of course that the average person who needs disk data really only needs the capacity of a CD or at best a couple gig thumb drive, most pictures, word files and other files don't take up a whole lot of room. Most buisness software and presentations still fit easily on a CD and for long term data storage 50gb is pretty pathetic compared to terabit harddrives.
This is why DVDs themselves were sold to the public as a superior movie format, very few people today let alone 1998 need the transportable storage capcity offered. The problem of course with blu-ray is that the new superior movie format isn't that much better.
