We’ve finally gotten to the good stuff in Blu-ray: BD-Live 2.0 players all over the place, Transformers, Firefly, cheaper prices, almost everything we wanted. That’s too bad, because Samsung says this party will be over in just five years.
Andy Griffiths, Samsung UK’s director of consumer electronics, says that “I think it [Blu-ray]has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn’t give it 10.” Sad, really, since he believes 2008 is finally Blu-ray’s year (we agree, by year’s end, it’ll have finally found its stride).
He doesn’t elaborate on what he thinks will take it down, but since Samsung is moving into internet-connected TVs, it’s possible he’s referring to the oft-cited digital downloads spectre that’s been haunting the format war since the first shots were fired. Whatever happens, it’ll look pretty on our OLED sets in 2010, which is when he thinks the tech will finally go mainstream. [Pocket Lint]
Stew
September 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM
We’re still going to need some kind of cheap, long-lasting, high-capacity medium to backup & hide all of our pr0n (plus other data I guess). So while “Blu-ray” might fall to online movie & game stores & downloads in the future, there’s still a need for offline non-magnetic storage, like Blu-ray discs (and whatever medium will succeed them – which may or may not be an optical disc).
Report Permalink