BluRay looks to win the battle, while electronic distribution wins the war
Nortel’s CTO John Roese dreams about the possibilities of a 4G world on GigaOm, and it makes Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins’ comments on the Format Wars ring very true. Bill points out that the battle between BluRay and HD DVD has been incredibly overhyped, since the world is moving beyond DVDs as the entertainment medium of choice.
Electronic distribution has quietly won the war, and the spoils go to spinning media.
Consumers are downloading their movies onto their home computers at a torrential rate. Home entertainment solutions that provide terabytes of capacity are the future.
Actually, they’re here now, as anyone who walked the aisles at CES this year would know.
PCs, Home Servers and Entertainment Systems (Apple TV?) are the combatants in the next battle that matters for consumer content. Where will all of those terabytes of movies in the home reside?
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BluRay or HD DVD? It doesn’t matter // January 29, 2008 at 10:22 am |
[...] ritholtz wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBill points out that the battle between BluRay and HD DVD have been incredibly overhyped, since the world is moving beyond DVDs as the entertainment medium of choice. Electronic distribution has quietly won the war, and the spoils go to … [...]
BluRay or HD DVD? It doesn’t matter // January 29, 2008 at 11:04 am |
[...] Emil Protalinski wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBluRay looks to win the battle, while electronic distribution wins the war. Nortel’s CTO John Roese dreams about the possibilities of a 4G world on GigaOm, and it makes Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins’ comments on the Format Wars ring very … [...]
Adrian // March 8, 2008 at 11:32 pm |
for the consumer space yes, but in high end graphics environments or client – server environments, I’d go to Phantom Data Systems for bluray server solutions. http://www.phantomdatasystems.com/bluraydisc.html Phantom Data Systems Blu Ray Server MAC, PC, LINUX compatible
BluRay’s new nemesis « Storage Effect // March 17, 2008 at 8:10 am |
[...] my previous post on how BluRay won the battle but lost the [...]