Bill Gates: DVDs doomed in less than 10 years..
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years at the latest, Microsoft boss and founder Bill Gates predicted. Asked what home entertainment would like in the future, Gates said that DVD technology would be "obsolete in 10 years at the latest. If you consider that nowadays we have to carry around film and music on little silver discs and stick them in the computer, it's ridiculous," Gates said in comments reproduced in German in the mass-circulation daily Bild. "These things can scratch or simply get lost."
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Reply #2 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:28 PM
Usb-sticks....
But who knows
Reply #3 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:29 PM
...Gates' vision of television of the future was: "TV that will simply show what we want to see, when we want to see it. When we get home, the home computer will know who we are from our voice or our face. It will know what we want to watch, our favourite programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to see."
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:41 PM
Blue Ray disks can hold up to 50gig so thats a good start
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Reply #7 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:41 PM
Seriously though, I'd like to see something like USB sticks. They seem much tougher.
Reply #8 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:59 PM
X Box was supposed to be that all purpose console. Microsoft is just trying to get their hands into everything.Reply #9 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:06 PM
Basically the shows would download over high-speed connections. No more needing massive amounts of storage space, DVD's laying around everywhere or waiting for the show to come on so TIVO can record it.. ha... you just put in, I want 'The Jeffersons' and you could watch every episode in any order you choose.
Reply #10 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:15 PM
TaoX do you subscribe to Insight Digital, because my cable service has alreay patented On-Demand TVReply #11 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:19 PM
"640k Should Be Enough for Anybody."
Reply #13 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:40 PM
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Reply #17 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:37 PM
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Reply #19 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:17 PM
I think there will still be live broadcasts and people will flock to them to "see it first" but you could just put it on the network and maybe even access it on the road even through remote (like in your car or big SUV... besides why have all those movie screens and not play movies or go on the internet?)
Its on CNET (or just check out my blog on JoeUser. its one of the links archive posts. Half the story is there (or less) and the other half is on CNET)
Reply #20 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:53 PM
Surely the next 'big thing' in own-your-own media will be solid state.....memory card storage and distribution of audio and video....no moving parts....and using logic access rather than 'transport buttons'.
That would be a logical progression....prior to streaming access direct, or alongside it at least.
I remember eons ago, when magnetic 'swipe' cards [eg. credit cards] came out a friend and I pondered their eventual use as media formats....and now flash memory sticks are all the rage supplanting cd burning as a reasonable-sized data portability method...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:05 PM