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andrewducker) wrote2005-10-18 11:01 pm
andrewducker) wrote2005-10-18 11:01 pm
Bill Gates on HDVD/Blu-Ray
There's currently a major power struggle going on over the successor to DVD. Bill Gates has this to say, which I agree with:
I can see the next generation being useful - broadband isn't wide-spread enough for everyone at this point. But it's definitely taking over as a delivery medium - the only software I've installed from CD recently has been Windows itself. Everything else has been downloaded, and the same goes for most video and music.
Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. 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.
I can see the next generation being useful - broadband isn't wide-spread enough for everyone at this point. But it's definitely taking over as a delivery medium - the only software I've installed from CD recently has been Windows itself. Everything else has been downloaded, and the same goes for most video and music.
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