Bill Gates on HDVD/Blu-Ray

[andrewducker]

There's currently a major power struggle going on over the successor to DVD.  Bill Gates has this to say, which I agree with:

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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