Re: [OT] To****ba climbs on 'HD DVD exit'

Gnomus <gnomus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> once tried to test me. I ate their liver 
with some fava beans and a nice chianti

> There is still some doubt about Blu-Ray taking over the mantle of DVD,
> since so many people find DVD "good enough."  

The thing that gets me, is that the MP3 took over the music market, not 
the SACD/DVDA, but the poorer quality MP3 file.  The audiophile appears 
to have died off, and the demand for high quality audio has all but gone 
underground.

Now will the same thing happen to the TV/Film market??  will people be 
more than happy with a 700Mb DivX file rather than a 70Gb Blu-Ray.  
People tell me that VOD and movies over broadband is the future, but I 
just don't see it, or maybe I just don't want to see it, and that the 
generation lifespan of a music fan is far shorter than a movie fan, and 
maybe in 20 years all films will be streamed down you cable and the 
compression will be something else.

But I think for the next decade at least, our generation will still be 
making the format choices and we'll still be wanting out tangable little 
media discs and so I see Blu-Ray replacing DVD, if only by the way that 
they'll stop making DVD, as they have stopped making 4:3 CRT TVs, and 
anyone buying a new player, will have to buy a Blu-Ray, and then they 
will just start buying the discs.

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