[Sagekilla]

Prediction: CDs will be dead, DVDs will be on cusp of obsolete and Blu-ray dominant
Reality: CDs only good for music now, DVDs still the dominant format

Prediction: CDs will be hard and expensive to find, DVDs will be dirt cheap, Blu-rays will be moderately priced and more and more dominant
Reality: CDs are still cheap and plentiful, DVds are a bit more expensive and Blu-rays are a bit pricey still. Not $45/disc though

Prediction: Blu-ray will be plentiful for sale
Reality: Yep, not dominant but it's easy to find.

Prediction: Most of us will be doing HD cpature off airwaves and encoding HD movies at 720p or higher
Reality: Most are still on DVD, but most people can and are doing HD airwave capcture and encoding @ 720p.

Prediction: We'll debate whether 1 DVD HD-rips are worth quality
Reality: We're actually debating over 720p vs 1080p on a DVD-5

Prediction: Blank DVD-Rs are $0.25 or less.
Reality: Bingo.

Prediction: quantum computing logic will be developed
Reality: Actually it has.. Some researchers made a 4-quibit computer I think

Prediction: EMI will face a backlash for having CDs sound no better than the mp3s
Reality: Uh? I don't think this has happened.

Prediction: Internet will be pay-per-click
Reality: If you're talking about ads, yes.

Prediction: George Bush will be justifying his war on New Zealand
Reality: No.

Prediction: USB keys with 40 GB for $100. ($2.5/GB)
Reality: I can get a 32 GB flash drive for $60 on newegg ($1.87/GB)

Prediction: By the time I'll have money to buy DV camera, we'll be onto HDTV
Reality: Yep.

Prediction: Portishead will finally release their new album
Reality: too lazy to check wikipedia.

Prediction: CPU power is 15-20 GHz
Reality: If you consider 4 cores @ 4 GHz... It's been done then.

Prediction: HD will have 1 TB capacity:
Reality: We're up to 1.5 TB actually

Prediction: Most hollywood movies are CG
Reality: Actually not that far off.

Prediction: All movies in cinema are direct streamed
Reality: Not quite but we do have a lot of digital theaters

Prediction: 3D Tvs
Reality: No, but there are 2 3D LCD monitors..

Prediction: More speakers for surround sound
Reality: We went up to 7.1 now, but that's about it

Prediction: Count is lower because of better codecs
Reality: Uh, count is low because it's impractical to have a dozen speakers

Prediction: Mobile Phones and PDAs are the same
Reality: Mobile Phones are converging with PDAs, but not there yet

Prediction: TVs and PCs are same
Reality: You can go on your PC with your TV monitor to watch TV on the internet!

Prediction: Standalone (consoles?) and PCs are the same
Reality: On PS3 you can install linux!

Prediction: Multiple soundtracks for each movie on a disc
Reality: If you count multiple tracks like PCM, DTS, etc then yes

Prediction: We'll have a connection to download 1 GB/min
Reality: I can download 1/3 of a GB/min on a high end FiOS connection

Prediction: MS begins new secret KI (AI?) based OS
Reality: I have no idea what you were trying to say. Please speak into the microphone louder.

Prediction: Dukenukem4 will be released
Reality: "When it's ready."

Prediction: I win the lottery?
Reality: Nope. You're still poor.