Richard Doherty, Microsoft’s Media Entertainment Convergence product manager, who made a bold statement that HD-DVD and Blu-ray will become completely old-fashioned within 5 years.
HD content requires a media, which offers a large storage area, and today there is nothing much better than HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks that can offer such a robust performance. Microsoft’s claims that the media should become obsolete in the next five years or so are too optimistic. Where will the users store the terabytes of content that they would have accumulated during this time?
Moreover, we can also say that the software giant is thinking of a world in which users will no longer use HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray disks to store data rather they will then have to make use of online servers for that data. For that, I think Microsoft will have to provide free server storage to all the consumers and that too in the terabytes. I think this itself is as imaginary as the claims of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray to become obsolete.
Via: Boygeniusreport
