Rumors of Blu-ray going the way of Beta & laserdisc...?

[Moviefanatic]

Anyone heard that some are saying that Blu-ray may end up going the way of Beta and Laserdisc? I wonder if there's any truth in this?

Moviefanatic

[Mike P.]

I wonder what would supposedly take its place?

[tonyvdb]

The only thing that "may" happen is they start using flash memory for storing HD movies however they have some hurdles to work through one of them being cost of the 32mb flash card (more than enough space) being high.
I dont see this happening any time soon though (maybe 5 years or more away) in the mean time BluRay is here to stay. The studios have way to much invested in it to abandon it any time soon.
There may be a possibility of downloading but again there are alot of infrastructure upgrades that must happen if this is to come to pass.

[Sonnie]

I suspect in a year or so those 32GB flash cards will be less than 20 bucks, two years probably less than 10 bucks, but that still would not be low enough, so I agree... it will be a while. However, four to five years down the road will be here before we know it.

I certainly have not heard anything on Blu-ray. They are sure releasing a LOT of movies every week, BUT the prices are ridiculous. I am being extremely selective in my BD purchases. I think I own maybe four right now.

[mechman]

Everything does eventually. Goes away, that is.

I've never felt that Blu-Ray or it's former competitor would be around as long as DVD was. Technology seems to move fairly quickly.

[Tommy]

The only thing currently threatening BR sales is VOD (downloads/streaming videos) and although that may hurt a certain percentage of sales the average person will still want an actual disc to keep for purchases.

[tonyvdb]

Tommy wrote:

The only thing currently threatening BR sales is VOD (downloads/streaming videos) and although that may hurt a certain percentage of sales the average person will still want an actual disc to keep for purchases.

There are far too many people who only have dile up for internet services so a disc is still needed The studios would never stop selling actual BluRay unless there was another media available. Flash media is possible but they are also susceptible to accidental erasure. Also VOD still doesn't have the bandwidth to alow for fully uncompressed HD and the uncompressed audio.

[XxxBERRYxxX]

Until the masses can download HD material quickly with lousy internet connections, I don't see it going anywhere for quite awhile.

[Sonnie]

I watched my first VOD via Dish Network when we viewed Knowing. While it says its 1080p, it did not look at good as Blu-ray, but maybe it was the movie. I would have to see it on BD to verify. Nonetheless, it broke up and froze on several occasions... over a half dozen times at least. It was my first VOD (at $6.99) and it will be my last.

[tonyvdb]

I rented Knowing over the weekend and the video quality was very good. I just really did not like the movie.