FLASH Killed the Format War
January 15th 2007 06:55
Is the story of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I don’t like calling victories for either side and if I could have it my way DVD’s would stay for another five to ten years and won’t need to be replaced until my kids start complaining the holiday home only has a 50” SED TV instead of the 120” sucker we have at home.
But still, that isn’t going to happen (the DVD lasting out that long, I’m still getting that 120” tribute to modern technology).
So which will win? Put it down frankly and honestly, if it was one or the other, which would deserve market dominance in this HD-oriented industry? Honestly? Neither do. They are both expensive, they both don’t contain all the movies in Hollywoods library, they both are, simply put, not giving as much as they are taking.
Bill Gates said the smartest thing about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray when during an interview he was asked about the format war and the importance of it in the industry,
Well that pretty much sums it up for us all really, who will want an optical disk when we can have it downloaded onto a hard drive or flash based memory source and have it play from there?
However I doubt hard drive will be the principle storage medium that streams as Bill Gates says, I think it will be flash based memory, their prices are continually dropping and they are more flexible and longer lasting than hard drives. Development in flash technology as a secondary non portable storage medium has already been put to good use on notebook hard drives.
Our only real problem is download speeds are notoriously slow, especially in some so-called first world countries like Australia. The truth is simple, by the time we do have those big fat TV’s that will really show off the beauty of HD pictures we will also have the internet connection to match.
But still, that isn’t going to happen (the DVD lasting out that long, I’m still getting that 120” tribute to modern technology).
So which will win? Put it down frankly and honestly, if it was one or the other, which would deserve market dominance in this HD-oriented industry? Honestly? Neither do. They are both expensive, they both don’t contain all the movies in Hollywoods library, they both are, simply put, not giving as much as they are taking.
Bill Gates said the smartest thing about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray when during an interview he was asked about the format war and the importance of it in the industry,
For us it's not the physical format. 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.
Well that pretty much sums it up for us all really, who will want an optical disk when we can have it downloaded onto a hard drive or flash based memory source and have it play from there?
Notebook Hard Drive based on Flash
Our only real problem is download speeds are notoriously slow, especially in some so-called first world countries like Australia. The truth is simple, by the time we do have those big fat TV’s that will really show off the beauty of HD pictures we will also have the internet connection to match.
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