Comments on: Once Again, Microsoft Explains Why It Won’t Go Blu-ray

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:25:35 +0000

Come one, you dont think DVD will last forever until judgment day do you?

Funny that people said the same thing 10 years ago during the early days of DVD. 10 years ago, no one can imagine why in the world would anyone buy DVDs, while 700MB is enough to store anything they want.

The only reason why people dont buy Blu-ray is because:

1. The Price.
Just like any new technology, it started of high price and will gradually come down over time.

2. Not everyone has HD TV yet.
We are at transition time, eventually HD TV will replace CRT TV altogether.

3. Blu-ray player still uncommon.

By: boc

boc — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:18:10 +0000

Bluray has a few good years of life in it yet. Most adopters (like myself) will get BD for collecting purposes. So it does have it's place. Anyone trying to convince others that it's a replacement for DVD are just deluded.

"The Cloud" may be the way of the future, but, that future is a long way off. For Australia, that may be a long, long, long way off.

Also, while downloaded content is "good enough" there will always be people and a market for high quality content.

By: Catchwa

Catchwa — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:38:25 +0000

Except that to download a Blu-Ray would max out most Australian’s TOTAL monthly download limit.

By: craig simpson

craig simpson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:03:26 +0000

well microsoft believes in the cloud and downloading from the net. This seems to be the way forward and mediums such as dvd and bluray aren’t.