The Intelligent Choice In the HD Format War
November 20th, 2007
Regular Chad’s News readers know that we’ve been covering the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray. LG Electronics has decided to make the point moot, by releasing a player that can handle both formats.
Link #1: http://us.lge.com/…
Link #2: http://us.lge.com/…
[link]josh Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 10:08 am
I have seen many signs that spinning optical media is
reaching the end of its life: SSD becoming cheap and
affordable; everyone downloading their music to their
MP3 players; downloadable movies; companies I work
with no longer offer updates except via download; and
lastly Mr. Gates’ prediction of the end of all
physical media. I believe we will go to Read Only
SSDs and then nothing.
While this article talks about the various media
formats, similar to Chad’s link, for me the relevant
bit is the prediction of the end. See
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6309108.html
I’ve quoted the relevant bits
… Bill Gates, … said: “For [Microsoft], it’s not
the physical format. Understand that this is the
last physical format there will ever be [Emphasis
by Josh, not Bill]. Everything’s going to be streamed
directly or on a hard disk. So, in this way, it’s
even unclear how much this one counts”