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geoffwa · 16th September 2003, 14:33

CDs have been around since the 1980s.

It's not technological superiority it's market penetration. Given how people seem to be buying into DVDs, it's unlikey that Blu-ray discs will take off quickly unless they are significanly better. And having Blu-ray discs availble in Japan at $45 a pop does not make them available *now*

If anything will kill CDs, it's that their primary storage ability - audio - seems to be shifting to online distribution.

I *do* predict that by 2020, Donald Graft will have produced a plugin that can make a Hollywood blockbuster out of random white noise, using field matching.

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geoffwa Level 3 Pirate Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 45	CDs have been around since the 1980s. It's not technological superiority it's market penetration. Given how people seem to be buying into DVDs, it's unlikey that Blu-ray discs will take off quickly unless they are significanly better. And having Blu-ray discs availble in Japan at $45 a pop does not make them available now If anything will kill CDs, it's that their primary storage ability - audio - seems to be shifting to online distribution. I do predict that by 2020, Donald Graft will have produced a plugin that can make a Hollywood blockbuster out of random white noise, using field matching.