Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, My comments are somewhat jaundiced by the realities of Japanese business models. As the patents expire on CD technology there is no money to be made going backward. You will see combination Blu-Ray, HD, and DVD but I think that CD compatibility will be dropped. Especially as the music industry moves to a download model of sales. When the mainstream computers start shipping with Blu-Ray drives my thesis will be proven or dis proven. On 6/8/07, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > > > Five > > years out CD's will be very hard to find and new computers will not read > > them. > > I suspect that this is not true. It is so easy to build a DVD drive that > can > also read CDs that I'm sure all of them will be able to do so for a long > long > time. > > For some reason I didn't see Dennis' original question: > > > Brian, Will the new "blue ray DVD's make the DVD's used today obsolete > > in the near future? > > but it is the nature of that industry to make drives that are backwards > compatible, because it will help them build market share. That means that > it > is certain that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD readers will be able to read regular > DVDs > and also CDs. Note that there are at least 3 kinds of "regular DVDs", > namely > DVD, DVD-R, and DVD+R, never mind the rewritable ones. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com