Life After Blu-ray - Downloadable Content
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This technology is available right now. The ability to download videos straight to your PC or media center will be great, but are we ready? Currently I don't think enough people have the hardware to run the media center that this would require.
The movies will be roughly 4 TB for the next generation, so not only are we going to need massive space for storing movies, but also a solid connection to the Internet, with speeds probably only reached in science labs now. I doubt the technology will be there when Blu-ray is on its last legs. I do think the general move is toward downloadable content, but we are a few generations off from this being the norm.
Conclusion
While more people are just now getting to understand what the heck Blu-ray is, we are looking to see what is next. Sure it is probably quite a ways off, but as tech gurus we are never satisfied with the current technology. The HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war has just finished, and the next round is already in the making.
The war is still open to new and unmentioned technologies as well as the ones included here. The ones mentioned here are some of the front runners I feel have a good chance at winning the next media wars. My favorite so far has to be HVD. It offers the largest amount of space and the credit card sized versions will give it an additional push to the market.
I think downloadable media will also gain in popularity as well. I'm not going to bet that it will become the dominant means of buying videos, but it may draw a noticeable market share.
So how much is my opinion worth? Well I'm definitely someone that keeps up with the rapidly changing technology, but I was a huge HD-DVD fan until the end. Sadly it didn't win. I'm 0 for 1 so far for predictions, so perhaps this round will be different.
Thanks for stopping by and reading my article on what is next after Blu-ray. If it turns out to be anything like the last fight, there will be plenty more news coming out of DevHardware about these new technologies and the next generation war.
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