Mongol Id like to see where you got that idea from

Mongol

Id like to see where you got that idea from. As far as being faster is concerned, optical is far from depleted technology. Im certain that when media displays have increased their display properties, there will be a better optical technology to supplant BR. I dont expect flash media to ever become competitive with optical. Id like to see where you got that idea from I got that from an article posted here at DT. I forget who, but one of the industry bigwigs was theorizing BR will never catch on big, becasue by the time its affordable to the masses, Flash media will be cheaper, larger, faster etc. The theory is its all data, bits and byts Would you rather carry 5 movies around on 5 BR discs or stick it all on a tiny flash card in your pocket unnoticed at that. Its acompelling In a few years we will have 32, 64 and even 128 GB flash media maybe SDHC or a variant selling extremely cheap. I have about 200 DVDs for a total of about 1, 000 GB. If in 3-4 years I start collecting BRs the way I am DVDs, that would be in the neighborhood of 10 TB. Anyways, I cant see a flash drive replacing an optical disc any time soon. A 5 or 8 GB flash drive will never go for 50 cents. The Internet backbone, at least in the US, is proving to be very poor and inadequate for much humbler requirements than downloading DVDs/BDs and then saving them on magnetic or flash drives. I Mongol cant see it working as a replacement in the next 10 years. Yes, but just because you cant see it, doesnt mean it wont and we arent talking about today, we are talking about a few years down the road. remember just 5 or so years ago 16GB SD card was a hundred dollars, now we have 16GB SDHC cards for less than 1 It drops really especially when bought in bulk. Even the cheapest flash drives are about 8 for a 256MB unit. No matter what happens to flash, it wont be 50 cents per unit like a DVD or what a BR will be in about 3-4 years. obsolete retail products like a 256mb flash card and mass produced standard format if adopted by media companies as a format are 2 totally different prices. If it were to catch on, studios would buy them by the millions of units and they would be competitively cheap. Who knows though. We will have to wait and see. I do know one BR needs to drop prices to be adopted by the masses, and if that doesnt happen, SOME other standard will be created and adopted to fill that gap. I do know one BR needs to drop prices to be adopted by the masses, I think the biggest factor in inhibiting BR sales is the cost of the discs and the terrible selection offered in that format. I wouldnt be surprised to see BR take another 7-9 years before it hits equal status with DVD. But I cannot accept the postulate that flash will compete at all with optical media. It has its place, and its penetration Mongol expand. Nonetheless, it wont be optical that it supplants. Youre an idiot. No competition? Those studios and manufacturers are all competing with each other for your purchase. By your rationale, DVD should have stayed perpetually high because there was no competing format. But it didnt.