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Posted by Sla#s on 05/26/76 11:53
Gary Kelman wrote:
> "Sla#s" <phil@KNOT.slatts.net> wrote in message
> news:44b6d5cd$0$69392$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>> For the last sixty years manufacturers have been selling us a new media
>> format approximately every ten years - 78s, LPs, Cassettes, CDs, Videos,
>> DVDs and now HDDVD & Blueray.
>> But has this merry-go-round come to an end? What can they sell us next
>> after we will all start downloading media off the net. The cash cow that
>> kept the giants of the media industry in coke and champagne will be dead.
>> iTunes has changed the music industry, what will iFlicks (TM) do when it
>> inevitably arrives?
>>
>> Slatts
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5187382.stm
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That kind of fits what I was thinking that "BlueDVD" (Tm) will be the
"Last Format" and after it, in the ten years it takes to invent a new
format, all will be downloadable Bytes.
The delivery media becomes fixed.
If you look at the survey on the page you quote above you will see 37%
of folk (OK, who read the page) already stream music around their homes.
Yes in ten years not everyone will be online but what manufacturer will
invest billions in developing a new format that will only be bought by
this small, non tech savy, percentage of the population?
So the only new formats will be software rather than hardware. There
will be improvements is sound and vision but it will be simply getting
upgraded from Ver 6 to Ver 7.
So all that will be left for hardware manufactures to sell us will be
better screens and speakers, as the players themselves will be PCs and Macs.
Slatts
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